Island of the Penguins
The island of the Penguins is an island of the archipelago of the Crozet.
The island of the Penguins belongs to the Western group of the archipelago. It located at approximately 30 km in the south-east of the island to the Pigs, the largest island of the group. Long of about 4 km for less than 2 km broad (and approximately 3 km ² of surface), it culminates nevertheless to 340 m of altitude (Mount Penguin).
Geology
The island of the Penguins is, like the islands of the Apostles, the remainder of a relatively important volcanic apparatus installed in the south-west of the island to the Pigs. The island - or what it remains about it aligns in the south-eastern North-West/, that is to say an orthogonal direction with that of the Apostles. Its vertical cliffs show well laminated deposits of hyaloclastites surmounted brêches with large blocks then lava flows towards top: a sequence which could indicate the passage of underwater eruptions to air épanchements.
A geochronologic measurement indicates 1,1 million years for a casting of the top, which does not predict an age of the volcano which should be more or less synchronous among that of the Apostles.
History
One allots to the French navigator Marion Dufresne the discovery of the island which named it in 1772 “Island Inaccessible” but one brings back to Heroin to have officially announced it for the first time in 1837. At the 19th century, the hunters of English seals and American called it Penguin Island (island of the French penguins), several colonies of penguins residing there. Its current name comes from the bad French translation of the English name.
Anecdotes
- the Island of the Penguins is also the title of a novel of Anatole France.
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