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Country: | Norway | |
| Subregion Name: | Southern Atlantic Ocean | ||
| Volcano Number: | 1806-03- | ||
| Volcano Type: | Submarine volcano ? | ||
| Volcano Status: | Uncertain | ||
| Last Known Eruption: | Unknown | ||
| Summit Elevation: | Unknown | ||
| Latitude: | 53.93°S | 53°56'0"S | |
| Longitude: | 5.50°E | 5°30'0"E | |
| An island reportedly last seen in 1893 about 70 km NNE of Bouvet Island was gone in 1898, possibly as a result of an undetected volcanic eruption (Baker, 1967). The location for the island given by Norris in 1825 appears unlikely. Bathymetry at the reported location of the island shows a depth of more than 2400 m (Smith and Sandwell, 1997), and the exact location of the possible former island and the confirmation of the existence of a submarine volcano remains uncertain. Thompson Island was not mentioned in a LeMasurier and Thomson (1990) compilation of volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and the southern oceans, for which Baker was an associate editor. | |||