Scott Island
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Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin in the Ross Sea, Southern Ocean, Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Cape Adare, the northeastern extremity of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is Script error: No such module "convert". long north–south, and between Script error: No such module "convert". and Script error: No such module "convert". wide, reaching a height of Script error: No such module "convert". and covering an area of Script error: No such module "convert".. Haggits Pillar, a stack reaching Script error: No such module "convert". in height and measuring Script error: No such module "convert". in diameter, yielding an area of less than Script error: No such module "convert"., is located Script error: No such module "convert". west of the island. The island has two small coves with beaches, the rest of the island being surrounded by high cliffs. One of the coves is on the northeastern coast and the other opposite Haggitts Pillar on the western coast of the island.
The island was discovered and landed upon on 25 December 1902 by captain William Colbeck, commander of the SY Morning, the relief ship for Robert Scott's expedition. Colbeck originally planned to name the island Markham Island, after Sir Clements Markham, but later decided to name it after Scott. Haggits Pillar is named after Colbeck's mother's family name, Haggit. In 2006, a mapping expedition to the Ross Sea found the islands Script error: No such module "convert". north of their previously determined position.[1]
Scott Island is part of the Ross Dependency, claimed by New Zealand (see Territorial claims of Antarctica).
There was an automatic weather station on the island from December 1987 to March 1999.[2] The records show an average temperature of a few °C (°F) below Script error: No such module "convert". in summer, and down to Script error: No such module "convert". in winter.[3]
On 12 February 2009 Andrew Perry and Molly Kendall, crew members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship MY Steve Irwin, were married on the island by captain Paul Watson.[4]
See also
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- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- SCAR
- Territorial claims in Antarctica
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- List of islands
- Desert island
References
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- ↑ The changing map of Antarctica, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Coasts & Oceans Update, No. 17, 2007
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External links
- Birds observed at Scott Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica
- Gerhard Wörner and Giovanni Orsi (1990). Volcanic observations on Scott Island in the Antarctic Ocean, Polarforschung, 60 (2), 82–83.
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