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"Well might it be called Inaccessible Island!" exclaimed Fritz, gazing intently at the threatening cliffs and cruel surge.
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The most important is a mile from the end of Cape Evans and is called Inaccessible Island, owing to the inhospitality of its steep lava side, even when the sea is frozen; we found a way up, but it is not a very interesting place.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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Someday I hope to make the long journey to Inaccessible Island, which is generally accomplished by traveling to Cape Town, South Africa and catching a ride on a boat to Tristan da Cunha and then inveigling a local into providing transportation over to Inaccessible Island.
10,000 Birds Corey 2010
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On Inaccessible Island the terrestrial fauna, like the flora, has relatively low diversity but a high degree of endemism.
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The temperature of the seas surrounding Inaccessible Island increases by some 4°C in summer, influenced by the movement of the Subtropical Convergence from north to south of the island.
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There are four shield volcanoes among the twelve volcanic island World Heritage sites: 2,745 m snowbound Mt. Mawson on Heard Island, and the Subantarctic islands off southern New Zealand (705 m high) are climatically not very comparable, the subtropical Lord Howe Island seamount group off Australia (875 m high) and cool temperate Inaccessible Island in the south Atlantic (600 m high) have similarities but both are dormant and much eroded.
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On Inaccessible Island there are 213 native species of plants, eight being known only from the island. 60 of the 136 species and 35 of the 46 vascular plants restricted to the Tristan group are also found there, including all ten endemic species.
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Extension to site to include Inaccessible Island accepted 2004
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Inaccessible Island has been uninhabited except for a two-year farming settlement 1936-38 but has been regularly visited from Tristan for birds, eggs, driftwood, guano and apples.
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Seabed to 910 meters (m) (Gough Island.); to ± 600 m (Inaccessible Island).
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