Paulet Island
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Paulet Island, December 2004
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| Geography | |
| Location | Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Cinder cone[1] |
| Last eruption | Unknown |
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Map of Graham Land, showing Paulet Island (10)
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| Location | Antarctica |
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| Archipelago | Joinville Island group |
| Length | 1.5 km (0.93 mi) |
| Width | 1.5 km (0.93 mi) |
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| Population | 0 |
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| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
Paulet Island is a circular island about 1.5 km (0.93 mi) in diameter, lying 4.5 km (2.8 mi) south-east of Dundee Island, off the north-eastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula. Because of its large penguin colony, it is a popular destination for sightseeing tours.
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Description
The island is composed of lava flows capped by a cinder cone with a small summit crater. Geothermal heat keeps parts of the island ice-free, and the youthful morphology of the volcano suggests that it was last active within the last 1,000 years.[1]
Historic monuments
Paulet Island was discovered by a British expedition (1839–1843) under James Clark Ross and named by him for Captain the Right Honorable Lord George Paulet, Royal Navy. In 1903 during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition led by Otto Nordenskiöld his ship Antarctic was crushed and sunk by the ice off the coast of the island. A stone hut built in February 1903 by shipwreck survivors, together with the grave of an expedition member, and the cairn built on the highest point of the island to draw the attention of rescuers, have been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 41), following a proposal by Argentina and the United Kingdom to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.[2]
Important Bird Area
The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a very large breeding colony of about 100,000 pairs of Adélie penguins. Other birds known to nest on the island include imperial shags, snow petrels and kelp gulls.[3]
Gallery
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Paulet Island (February 2007)
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Adelie penguin colony on Paulet Island
See also
References
Bibliography
- Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985, pp. 152–159.
- Child, Jack. Antarctica and South American Geopolitics: Frozen Lebensraum. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988, pp. 69, 72.
- Lonely Planet, Antarctica: a Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit, Oakland, CA: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996, 302.
- Stewart, Andrew, Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. London: McFarland and Co., 1990 (2 volumes), p 752.
- U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed. Washington: NSF, 1980.
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External links
- Pages using deprecated coordinates format
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using deprecated map format
- Articles using infobox islands with additional info
- Mountains of Graham Land
- Volcanoes of Antarctica
- Landforms of Graham Land
- Landforms of the Joinville Island group
- Active volcanoes
- Islands of the Joinville Island group
- Important Bird Areas of Antarctica
- Seabird colonies
- Historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica
