Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin in the

Ross Sea The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who ...

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, northeast of Cape Adare, the northeastern extremity of

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

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. It is long north–south, and between and wide, reaching a height of and covering an area of . Haggits Pillar, a stack reaching in height and measuring in diameter, yielding an area of less than , is located west of the island. The island has two small coves with beaches, the rest of the island being surrounded by high cliffs. One of the coves is on the northeastern coast and the other opposite Haggitts Pillar on the western coast of the island. The island was discovered and landed upon on 25 December 1902 by captain William Colbeck, commander of the SY ''Morning'', the relief ship for Robert Scott's expedition. Colbeck originally planned to name the island Markham Island, after Sir Clements Markham, but later decided to name it after Scott. Haggits Pillar is named after Colbeck's mother's family name, Haggit. In 2006, a mapping expedition to the Ross Sea found the islands north of their previously determined position.The changing map of Antarctica
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Coasts & Oceans Update, No. 17, 2007 Scott Island is part of the

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, claimed by New Zealand (see Territorial claims of Antarctica). There was an automatic weather station on the island from December 1987 to March 1999. The records show an average temperature of a few °C (°F) below in summer, and down to in winter. On 12 February 2009 Andrew Perry and Molly Kendall, crew members of the

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's ship MY ''Steve Irwin'', were married on the island by captain

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Birds observed at Scott Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica
*Gerhard Wörner and Giovanni Orsi (1990)
Volcanic observations on Scott Island in the Antarctic Ocean
''Polarforschung'', 60 (2), 82–83. {{coord, 67, 22.7, S, 179, 54.7, W, display=title Islands of the Ross Dependency Uninhabited islands of New Zealand

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