Bellingshausen_Island

Bellingshausen Island

Bellingshausen Island

Island in the Southern Thule group of the South Sandwich Islands

For Bellingshausen in the Society Islands, see Motu One (Society Islands). For Bellingshausen Station in King George Island, see Bellingshausen Station.

Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group. It is named after its discoverer, Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen (1778–1852).

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The island is a basaltic andesite stratovolcano, and the latest crater, about 152 metres (500 ft) across and 61 metres (200 ft) deep, formed explosively some time between 1968 and 1984. Its highest point, at 255 metres (837 ft), is Basilisk Peak. Its southeast point is called Isaacson Point; first charted by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1930 and named for Ms. S. M. Isaacson, an assistant to the staff of the Discovery Committee.[1]

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    "Isaacson Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 15 August 2018.

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