Clipperton Rock
| Clipperton Rock | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 29 m (95 ft) |
| Coordinates | 10°17′32″N 109°12′27″W / 10.2922°N 109.2075°W |
| Geography | |
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| Country | France |
Clipperton Rock is the highest point on Clipperton Island at 29 metres above sea level.
Geography
[edit]Clipperton Rock is located in the southeast of Clipperton Island.[1] It constitutes the only emerged point of a chain of submarine mountains and volcanoes known as the East Pacific Rise.[2] It is composed of trachyandesite[3][4] and constitutes the last fragment of the neck of the volcano before becoming dormant.[5][6]
Elongated in shape and approximately a hundred meters in length the rock has many cavities large enough to walk though.[1] It rises to an altitude of 29 meters,[7] almost entirely surrounded by the waters of the lagoon it is only connected to the rest of the atoll by a narrow strip of land to the east.[1] A geodetic marker from the IGN has been affixed to the rock.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Sachet, Marie-Hélène (1962). "Geography and land ecology of Clipperton Island". Atoll Research Bulletin. 86: 1–115. doi:10.5479/si.00775630.86.1. hdl:10088/5030.
- ^ Menard, H. W.; Fisher, Robert L. (1958). "Clipperton Fracture Zone in the Northeastern Equatorial Pacific". The Journal of Geology. 66 (3): 239–253. Bibcode:1958JG.....66..239M. doi:10.1086/626502. ISSN 0022-1376.
- ^ Fairbridge, Rhodes W. (1975), "Clipperton island", World Regional Geology, Encyclopedia of Earth Science, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 244–245, doi:10.1007/3-540-31081-1_35, ISBN 978-0-470-25145-4, retrieved 2024-09-21
- ^ Glynn, Peter W. (2017), Glynn, Peter W.; Manzello, Derek P.; Enochs, Ian C. (eds.), "History of Eastern Pacific Coral Reef Research", Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Coral Reefs of the World, vol. 8, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 1–37, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_1, ISBN 978-94-017-7498-7, retrieved 2024-09-21
- ^ Teall, J. J. H. (1898). "A Phosphatized Trachyte from Clipperton Atoll (Northern Pacific)". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 54 (1–4): 230–233. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1898.054.01-04.20. ISSN 0370-291X.
- ^ Darwin, Charles (1851). Geological Observations on Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, and on South America. London, England, United Knigdom: Smith, Elder, And Company. doi:10.1525/9780520327337. ISBN 978-0-520-32733-7.
- ^ Stager, Kenneth E. (1964). "The Birds of Clipperton Island, Eastern Pacific". The Condor. 66 (5): 357–371. doi:10.2307/1365428. ISSN 1938-5129. JSTOR 1365428.
- ^ Tchékémian, Anthony; Leleu, Patrick (2024). "La Passion-Clipperton : Traces anthropiques sur un atoll français inhabité, dans l'océan Pacifique" [La Passion-Clipperton: Anthropogenic traces on an uninhabited French atoll, in the Pacific Ocean]. Archéologie, société et environnement (in French). 4 (1): 1–45. doi:10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1155.