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The Balleny Islands () are a series of uninhabited islands in the Southern Ocean extending from 66°15' to 67°35'S and 162°30' to 165°00'E. The group extends for about in a northwest-southeast direction. The islands are heavily glaciated and of volcanic origin. Glaciers project from their slopes into the sea. The islands were formed by the so-called Balleny hotspot. The group includes three main islands: Young, Buckle and Sturge, which lie in a line from northwest to southeast, and several smaller islets and rocks: *northeast of Young Island: Seal Rocks, Pillar *southeast of Young Island: Row Island, Borradaile Island (with Swan Base shelter hut) *south of Buckle Island: Scott Cone, Chinstrap Islet, Sabrina Islet (with Sabrina Refuge shelter hut), and The Monolith The islands are part of the Ross Dependency, claimed by New Zealand (see Territorial claims in Antarctica). == Islands and rocks from north to south == The Antarctic Circle is close to Borradaile Island, in the eight kilometre channel between Young and Buckle Islands. Buckle Island and the nearby Sabrina Islet are home to several colonies of Adelie and chinstrap penguins. The English whaling captains John Balleny and Thomas Freeman first sighted the group during 1839:〔Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, ''The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water'' (Springer, 2010), 555.〕 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 and the highest point reaches 〔 or 〔 (the unclimbed Brown Peak on Sturge Island). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Balleny Islands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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