Coulman Island
The Coulman Island (English Coulman Iceland ) is an ice-covered, volcanic island in the Ross Sea of Antarctica. It is located 14 km off the coast of Daniell Peninsula in southern Victoria land, separated from it by the Glacier Strait. It consists of several connected shield volcanoes. The island is inhabited by emperor penguins, Adelie penguins and seals.
The southern end of Coulman Island is determined from the crater Hawkes Heights, a 700 meters deep, ice-filled caldera of 5 km in diameter. In the southwestern area of Hawkes Heights is the highest with 1999 meters of the island. The northern tip of the island forms the Cape Wadworth, where Captain Robert Falcon Scott set up a mailbox in the form of attached to an 8 -meter high red pole metal cylinder on its expedition of discovery on 15 January 1902. This mailbox is now one of the Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica.
The Coulman Island was discovered on January 17, 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, during an expedition of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, accompanied by the ( under Captain Francis Crozier ) mapped the Antarktikküste 1840-1843. Ross named the island ( and the Cape Wadworth ) after the uncle of his wife Anne, a Robert John Coulman, Esq. from Wadworth Hall in Doncaster. His wife honor he named the Cape in the south of the island of Cape Anne.
The island is within the boundaries of the claimed by New Zealand Ross Dependency area. These claims are not recognized internationally because of the Antarctic Treaty.