Walpole (island)

Walpole
	ISS photo
Waters	Pacific Ocean
Archipelago	Loyalty Islands
Geographical location	22 ° 36 '3 " S , 168 ° 56' 57" E Coordinates: 22 ° 36 '3 " S , 168 ° 56' 57" E
length	3 km
width	900 m
surface	2 km²
Highest elevation	70 m
Residents	uninhabited
	US nautical chart from 1901

Walpole ( French Île de Walpole ) is the south-easternmost island of the group of Loyalty Islands . Walpole is 180 km east of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. The uninhabited island is about 3.5 km long in north-south direction and between 0.3 km and 0.9 km wide. Their area is approx. 2.0 km². Walpole is geographically part of the Loyalty Islands, but administratively does not belong to the Province of the Loyalty Islands, but to the municipality of L'Île-des-Pins in the southern province of New Caledonia.

history

On November 17, 1794, the British merchant captain Thomas Butler discovered the island and named it Walpole after his ship with which he had brought goods to New South Wales . Captain Herskine landed on the island in 1850. Guano was mined on Walpole from 1910 to 1936 . At that time around 300 people lived here. Today, Walpole is uninhabited and rarely visited by scientific research expeditions. Evidence has been found of a settlement by people of the Lapita culture since approx. 800 BC. Found on Walpole Island.

geography

Walpole is an upscale atoll of volcanic origin. The island consists mainly of a plateau with vertical rock walls and narrow coastal strips in the southwest and northwest, the southern part of the island is overgrown with stunted trees. There are no fresh water sources.

Walpole, windward east coast.
Walpole, Leeward West Coast.
Walpole, west coast, rubble.
Walpole, Leeward West Coast.

Web links

Alain Renevier, Jean-François Cherrier: Flore Et Vegetation De L'Ile De Walpole (PDF; 547 kB). In: Atoll Research Bulletin , National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1991 (French).
Christophe Sand: Walpole, A "Mystery Island" in Southeast New Caledonia. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: Val Attenbrow, Richard Fullagar: A Pacific Odyssey: Archeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honor of Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum No. 29, Sydney 2004 pp. 109-122, ISBN 0-9750476-3-9 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Christophe Sand: Walpole, A "Mystery Island" in Southeast New Caledonia. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: Val Attenbrow, Richard Fullagar: A Pacific Odyssey: Archeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honor of Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum No. 29, Sydney 2004 pp. 109-122, ISBN 0-9750476-3-9 .
^ John Dunmore: Who´s Who in Pacific Navigation, Honolulu 1991

[amowal-1] A ^b ^c ^d Christophe Sand: Walpole, A "Mystery Island" in Southeast New Caledonia. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: Val Attenbrow, Richard Fullagar: A Pacific Odyssey: Archeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honor of Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum No. 29, Sydney 2004 pp. 109-122, ISBN 0-9750476-3-9 .

[2] John Dunmore: Who´s Who in Pacific Navigation, Honolulu 1991