Balleny Islands

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The Balleny Islands form a chain of uninhabited, mainly volcanic, islands in the Southern Ocean streching from 66�15' to 67�35'S and 162�30' to 165�00'E. The group contains three main islands: Young, Buckle and Sturge; and two smaller ones. The English whaling captains John Balleny and Thomas Freeman first sighted the group in 1839: Freeman was the first person to land on any of the islands on February 9 1839, and it was the first landing south of the Antarctic Circle. The islands' area totals 400 km2 and the highest point reaches 1524 m (Brown Peak on Sturge Island).

They form part of the Ross Dependency, claimed by New Zealand (see claims on Antarctica).

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Balleny_Islands" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balleny_Islands, used under the GNU Free Documentation License