Inaccessible Island

Inaccessible is an extinct volcano in the Atlantic Ocean, which forms the same name, uninhabited island ( Inaccessible Iceland ). It is located 45 km southwest of the main island of Tristan da Cunha, and heard - as the entire island group of Tristan da Cunha - politically for about 2,400 km from the British overseas territory of Saint Helena.

Inaccessible Iceland measures from west to east about 6 km, from north to south about 5 miles and has an area of ​​about 14 km ². At its highest point, the Swales fur, it is 561 m high. About 20 kilometers south-east of Iceland are Inaccessible and Nightingale Iceland two other smaller islands called middleware Iceland and Stoltenhoff Iceland.

History

The island was discovered in 1652 by the crew of the Dutch ship 't night glass and originally named after the ship named Night glass Eylant, behind in parentheses, the remark " ontoegankelijk " (Eng. " inaccessible ", engl. " Inaccessible " ), as the sailors who had landed on the island, could not penetrate into the interior of the island. The nickname was later the general name for the island. Recently tried from 1982 to 1983 a group of scientists and students, for the purpose of bird count and research were there to cross the island, but failed on the steep slopes and dense shrubbery. Since 1995, the island strictest conservation area and entering only after permission and with experienced people of Tristan is possible.

Fauna

An endemic species of the island is the diurnal Atlantis Rail ( Atlantisia rogersi ). More occurring on the island of birds are among other the Tristan Thrush ( Nesocichla eremita ), the Antipodenseeschwalbe (Sterna vittata ) and the Rockhopper Penguin ( Eudyptes chrysocome ). It also lives a colony of fur seals Subantarctic (Arctocephalus tropicalis ) on the island. The island since 1995 belongs together with the Gough Island World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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