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Vortex Island (63°44′S 57°38′W) is an island 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long and 245 m high, lying in the northeast part of Prince Gustav Channel about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west-southwest of Corry Island, close south of Trinity Peninsula. Islands in this area were first seen by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04. Vortex Island was first charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in August 1945. The FIDS survey party was forced to lie idle there by a whirlwind snowstorm, thus suggesting the name.[1]
Geology
Vortex Island is composed of Pleistocene volcanic rocks of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, consisting of a tuya or moberg, which is a volcano erupted under an icecap. Yellow layers are palagonite weathering of steeply dipping ash layers, whereas black layers are basalt flows and pillow basalts.[2][3]
See also
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Vortex Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System) - Joseph Holliday, Geology Professor, El Camino College
- "Geological Map of James Ross Island" (PDF). Retrieved 23 March 2020.
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Vortex Island (von englisch vortex ‚Wirbel, Strudel‘; in Argentinien Islote Remolino) ist eine 800 m lange und bis zu 245 m hohe Insel im nordöstlichen Teil des Prinz-Gustav-Kanals vor der Südseite der Trinity-Halbinsel am nördlichen Ende der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Sie liegt rund 3 km westsüdwestlich von Corry Island.- [en] Vortex Island
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