Bellingshausen Island

South Sandwich Islands
Location of Bellingshausen Island
Geography
Coordinates	59°25′S27°5′W / 59.417°S 27.083°W /-59.417; -27.083
Administration
United Kingdom

Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly islands of theSouth Sandwich Islands, close toThule Island andCook Island, and forming part of theSouthern Thule group. It is named after its discoverer,RussianAntarctic explorerFabian von Bellingshausen (1778–1852).

The island is abasaltic andesitestratovolcano, 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), isBasilisk Peak. Isaacson Point is its southeast point—an area first charted byDiscovery Investigations personnel on theDiscovery II in 1930. It was named after Ms.S. M. Isaacson, an assistant to the staff of theDiscovery Committee.^[1]

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

• "Southern Thule".Global Volcanism Program.Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved25 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.

Photos of the island can be found at:

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

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