geo.wikisort.org - IslandGnomon Island is a small rocky island lying just north of Point Wild, on Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands. It was charted by Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition, 1914–1916, and so named by them because when viewed from Point Wild the shape of the feature is suggestive of a gnomon, the elevated arm of a sundial.[1]
Gnomon IslandSouth Shetland Islands |
Location of Gnomon Island Show map of Antarctic PeninsulaGnomon Island (Antarctica) Show map of Antarctica |
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Location | Antarctica |
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Coordinates | 61°5′S 54°52′W |
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Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System |
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Population | Uninhabited |
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See also
- List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands
References
- "Gnomon Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Gnomon Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)
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Rocks, stacks, reefs spits and banks | |
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Straits |
- Boyd
- English
- Fildes
- Glogovo
- Hell Gates
- Iglika
- Izgrev
- Klimash
- McFarlane
- Morton
- Mugla
- Neck or Nothing
- Nelson
- Orión
- Osmar
- Smolensk
- Villalón
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Undersea and subglacial features |
- Bransfield Trough
- Macheret Trench
- Orca Seamount
- Quiroga Ridge
- South Shetland Trough
- Vergilov Ridge
- Wordie Seamount
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History |
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Politics |
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Society |
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Famous explorers |
- Roald Amundsen
- Richard E. Byrd
- Douglas Mawson
- Ui-te-Rangiora
- James Clark Ross
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Ernest Shackleton
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[de] Gnomon Island
Gnomon Island (auch The Gnomon) ist eine kleine, felsige und steil aufragende Insel im Archipel der Südlichen Shetlandinseln. Sie liegt unmittelbar nördlich des Point Wild vor der Nordküste von Elephant Island.
- [en] Gnomon Island
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