Clipperton Rock

Clipperton Rock
Clipperton Rock
Highest point
Elevation	29 m (95 ft)
Coordinates	10°17′32″N 109°12′27″W / 10.2922°N 109.2075°W
Geography
Country	France

Clipperton Rock is the highest point on Clipperton Island at 29 metres above sea level.

Geography

Clipperton Rock is located in the southeast of Clipperton Island. It constitutes the only emerged point of a chain of submarine mountains and volcanoes known as the East Pacific Rise. It is composed of trachyandesite and constitutes the last fragment of the neck of the volcano before becoming dormant.

Elongated in shape and approximately a hundred meters in length the rock has many cavities large enough to walk though. It rises to an altitude of 29 meters, 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. A geodetic marker from the IGN has been affixed to the rock.

References

^ ^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.

[:0-1] 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.

[2] 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.

[3] 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

[4] 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

[5] 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.

[6] 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.

[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.

[8] 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.