Bellingshausen Island

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

Bellingshausen Island

South Sandwich Islands
Location of Bellingshausen Island
Geography
Coordinates	59°25′S 27°5′W
Administration
United Kingdom

Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly islands 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).

The island is a basaltic andesite stratovolcano, and the latest crater, which is about 152 metres (500 ft) across and 61 metres (200 ft) deep was formed from an explosion some time between 1968 and 1984. Its highest point, at 255 metres (837 ft), is Basilisk Peak. Isaacson Point is its southeast point—an area first charted by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1930. It was named after Ms. S. M. Isaacson, an assistant to the staff of the Discovery Committee.

See also

• Hardy Point
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• Salamander Point

References

• "Southern Thule". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
• LeMasurier, W.E.; Thomson, J.W., eds. (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union. p. 512. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.

External links

Photos of the island can be found at:

• http://www.photo.antarctica.ac.uk/external/guest/detail/personal/10005836/1/8
• http://cedric-in-antarctica-2009.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html