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Petrographical Notes on the Rock-Specimens collected in the Little Island of Trinidad, S. Atlantic, by the Antarctic Expedition of 1839–43, under Sir James Clark Ross

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. T. Prior
G. T. Prior*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum
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The Little Island of Trinidad, as it is called to distinguish it from the larger island in the West Indies, is situated in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 700 miles off the coast of Brazil, in lat. 20°31' S. and long. 29°19' W.

According to Ross, who in 1839 effeeted a landing on tile N.W. coast, the island is a mass of volcanic matter, the rocks of which it is composed assuming the most extraordinary shapes. The most remarkable of these are the Sugar Loaf Hill on the southern and the Nine-Pin Rock on the north-western coast.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 12 , Issue 58 , November 1900 , pp. 317 - 323
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1900

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References

page 317 note 1 A Voyage of Discovery and Re.qearch in the Southern and Antarctic Regions during the years 1839-43. London, John Murray, 1849.

page 318 note 1 The Cruise of the "Falcon." London, Sampson Low, &c., 1887. The Cruise oj the "Alert." London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1890.

page 318 note 2 The phonolite Peak of Fernando Noronha was originally described as of granite (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xlii, 1872, p. 43).

page 320 note 1 Am, J. Sci. XXXVII, 1889, p-185,

page 323 note 1 Am. J. Sci. XXXII 1889, p. 146.