7th March Scott Island – looms out of the storm and mist
Late this afternoon Scott Island loomed out of the mist - a couple of volcanic rocks that jut out of the middle of nowhere.
Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin off the northeastern extremity of Victoria Land. It is only 370 metres long and 180 metres wide, 50m high and covering an area of 4 hectares. Scott island is normally covered by an ice cap and surrounded by precipitous cliffs. There are two small coves with beaches on the island but the rest is made up of high cliffs. Just to the west of the island, Haggitt's Pillar sticks out like a saw thumb - a magnificent volcanic stack reaching over 60 metres above the sea level.
The island was discovered on Christmas Day 1902and landed upon by Captain William Colbeck, commander of the Morning, the relief ship for Captain Robert F. Scott's expedition. He named it Markham Island after Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society and the architect of the "Discovery".Haggitt's Pillar is named after William Colbeck's mother's family name, Haggitt. However the name was later changed in memory of Robert Falcon Scott.
Glen, the bosun, informed me how they had re-mapped this island on the previous voyage of the Tangaroa. It was apparently wrongly charted.
Late this afternoon Scott Island loomed out of the mist - a couple of volcanic rocks that jut out of the middle of nowhere.
Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin off the northeastern extremity of Victoria Land. It is only 370 metres long and 180 metres wide, 50m high and covering an area of 4 hectares. Scott island is normally covered by an ice cap and surrounded by precipitous cliffs. There are two small coves with beaches on the island but the rest is made up of high cliffs. Just to the west of the island, Haggitt's Pillar sticks out like a saw thumb - a magnificent volcanic stack reaching over 60 metres above the sea level.
The island was discovered on Christmas Day 1902and landed upon by Captain William Colbeck, commander of the Morning, the relief ship for Captain Robert F. Scott's expedition. He named it Markham Island after Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society and the architect of the "Discovery".Haggitt's Pillar is named after William Colbeck's mother's family name, Haggitt. However the name was later changed in memory of Robert Falcon Scott.
Glen, the bosun, informed me how they had re-mapped this island on the previous voyage of the Tangaroa. It was apparently wrongly charted.
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