Paulet Island

Paulet Island
Geography
Map of Graham Land, showing Paulet Island (10)
Paulet Island Location in Antarctica
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°35′S 55°47′W / 63.583°S 55.783°W / -63.583; -55.783Coordinates: 63°35′S 55°47′W / 63.583°S 55.783°W / -63.583; -55.783
Archipelago	Joinville Island group
Length	1.5 km (0.93 mi)
Width	1.5 km (0.93 mi)
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Paulet Island
Paulet Island, December 2004
Highest point
Elevation	353 m (1,158 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	353 m (1,158 ft)
Coordinates	63°35′S 55°47′W / 63.583°S 55.783°W / -63.583; -55.783 ^[1]
Geography
Location	Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Geology
Mountain type	Cinder cone^[1]
Last eruption	Unknown

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.

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] The shipwrecked crew of the Endurance original plan was to travel to the island and use stores there that were left by the above Swedish Expedition but the ice pack that they were stranded on eventually driffted too far east.^[3]

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.^[4]

Gallery

Paulet Island (February 2007)
Adelie penguin colony on Paulet Island

References

1 2 3 4 "Paulet". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
↑ "List of Historic Sites and Monuments approved by the ATCM (2012)" (PDF). Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
↑ Armstrong, Jennifer (1998). Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. Knopf a imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company.
↑ "Paulet Island". BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas. BirdLife International. 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-12.

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.
LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W., eds. (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union. p. 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.

External links

Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica

South Pole	South Pole

Coats Land	Belgrano II Station

Queen Maud Land	Dakshin Gangotri Humboldt Mountains Schirmacher Oasis Showa Station

Enderby Land	Proclamation Island

Kemp Land	Pole of Inaccessibility

Mac. Robertson Land	Cape Bruce

Princess Elizabeth Land	Tryne Islands Vostok Station Walkabout Rocks

Queen Mary Land	Buromskiy Island Mirny Station

Wilkes Land	A.B. Dobrowolski Station

Adélie Land	Débarquement Rock Petrel Island Port Martin

George V Land	Cape Denison

Victoria Land	Cape Adare Cape Geology Cape Wadworth Foyn Island Hells Gate Moraine Inexpressible Island Mount Dockery

Ross Sea	Cape Crozier Cape Evans Cape Royds Discovery Hut Hut Point Peninsula Lewis Bay McMurdo Station Mount Betty Mount Erebus Observation Hill Scott Base Scott's Hut

Edward VII Land	Scott Nunataks

Graham Land	Bernardo O'Higgins Station Damoy Point Detaille Island Esperanza Station Hope Bay Horseshoe Island Lambda Island Megalestris Hill Metchnikoff Point Paradise Harbor Paulet Island Port Charcot Port Lockroy San Martin Station Seymour Island Snow Hill Island Stonington Island Waterboat Point Winter Island

South Shetlands	Antarctic Treaty Monument Arturo Prat Station Great Wall Station Half Moon Beach Henryk Arctowski Station Lame Dog Hut Maxwell Bay Pendulum Cove Point Wild Potter Cove Whalers Bay Yankee Harbour

South Orkneys	Scotia Bay

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