Elwyn Jenkins (Department of English Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) has published in the South African Geographical Journal on the derivations of some of the names accorded to geographical features at Marion Island, including the renaming of the island’s two highest peaks. The paper’s abstract follows: “Jules Verne, in his novel The […]
John Cooper, ALSA’s Principal Investigator will attend a multidisciplinary conference on the historical Antarctic sealing industry at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge on 18 & 20 September 2016. He will present a paper on the wrecking of the Solglimt and rescue of its crew at Marion Island in 1908, with co-authors Jaco Boshoff, Social […]
Boot Rock is situated c. 850 m offshore of the northern part of Marion Island between Cape Davis and Storm Petrel Bay. It is a very prominent offshore sea stack with vertical sides and a sloping top, rising straight out of the sea, described by geologist Wilhelm Verwoerd as “built of massive grey basalt capped […]
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