Small islands of the Apostles

The small islands of the Apostles are a group of islands of the archipelago of the islands Crozet.

Geography

The small islands of the Apostles belong to the Western group of the archipelago of the Crozet islands and are located at approximately 10 km in the North-East of the island to the Pigs, the largest island of the group. They are composed of a principal island, the Large Island, of a smaller island, the Small island, and several rocks, among which one can quote the Northern Rock, the Split Rock, the Bored Rock, the Keep or the Obelisk. The whole of the archipelago does not exceed 2 km ².

The islands are very escarpées. In spite of their small size, Grande Island culminates to 289 m from altitude, Small island to 246 m and two of the rocks with 110 Mr.

Volcanology

The group of islands, small islands and reefs is aligned according to a direction NE-SO which could be an hardened direction of food of the magma (dykes) having resisted better than the remainder of the volcano the faults, collapses and marine erosion. Currently, a negligible surface of the volcanic apparatus is visible although its extension, with its apogee, was to exceed the size of the island to the Pigs. On the Large Island, one observes brêches with large blocks and the stackings of lava flow (probably basaltic) separated by slag levels. Geochronologic measurements provided ages of 2,6 and 5,5 million years is it Me-Pliocène. It is well an age at least equal to those of the basal series of the island of the East and Possession that it would be necessary to retain.

Islands

The list according to gives the names of the small islands and rocks of the archipelago, of North in the South:

History

The Apostles are sadly famous for the shipwreck in the night of 1st at July 2nd, 1875, of the Strathmore , a three-masted ship with auxiliary engine which accomplished its inaugural voyage between the the United Kingdom and the New Zealand. Its compass being put out of order, the ship ran up against the reefs near the Large Island and sank quickly.

The survivors (44 on the 89 people on board) are members of the crew and passengers surprised in their town suits. They with difficulty will survive during 205 days of deprivations, cold, of promiscuity, until January 21st, 1876 when the 38 survivors will be helped by the Young Phoenix which had already collected 30 shipwrecked men of an abandoned ship. The hisorien New Zealand Ian Church undertook in 1985 the narration of this adventure in its book Survival one the Crozet Island published by Heritage Close (NZ), translated into French by Daniele Nougier and presented by Amapof under the title of Three Shipwrecks for three islands . ED of Dyle (1998): 90-801124-9-6.

See too

Internal bonds

Islands Crozet

External bonds

Chart of the archipelago

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