Scott Island
The island was discovered and landed upon on 25 December 1902 by captain William Colbeck, commander of the SY Morning, the relief ship for Robert Scott's expedition. Colbeck originally planned to name the island Markham Island, after Sir Clements Markham, but later decided to name it after Scott. Haggits Pillar is named after Colbeck's mother's family name, Haggit. In 2006, a mapping expedition to the Ross Sea found the islands 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) north of their previously determined position.
Scott Island is part of the Ross Dependency, claimed by New Zealand (see Territorial claims of Antarctica).
There was an automatic weather station on the island from December 1987 to March 1999. The records show an average temperature of a few °C (°F) below 0 °C (32 °F) in summer, and down to −40 °C (−40 °F) in winter.
On 12 February 2009 Andrew Perry and Molly Kendall, crew members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship MY Steve Irwin, were married on the island by captain Paul Watson.
See also
- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- SCAR
- Territorial claims in Antarctica
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- List of islands
- Desert island
References
- ^ The changing map of Antarctica, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Coasts & Oceans Update, No. 17, 2007
- ^ [1] Archived 28 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2] Archived 14 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Operation Musashi Crew Blog - Married in Antarctica!". SeaShepherd.org. 20 February 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
External links
- Birds observed at Scott Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica
- Gerhard Wörner and Giovanni Orsi (1990). Volcanic observations on Scott Island in the Antarctic Ocean, Polarforschung, 60 (2), 82–83.