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	Prince Edward Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marion Island is one of the peaks of a large underwater shield volcano that rises some 5000 m from the sea floor to the top of State President Swart Peak.
		Marion Island and Prince Edward Island were claimed for South Africa by a South African Navy force from the HMSAS Transvaal on 29 December 1947 and 4 January 1948 respectively.
		The islands are also deemed to be situated within the electoral district containing the Port of Cape Town; as of 2006 this is ward 55 of the City of Cape Town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marion_Island (933 words)

	Marion dxpedition
		Marion Island, the larger of the Prince Edward Islands group, is situated at 46°54' South and 37°5' East in the Southern Indian Ocean.
		The island is situated in the 'roaring forties' and lies approximately 1770 km south east of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
		Marion Island represents one of the peaks of a coalescing shield volcano.
	www.hartrao.ac.za /geodesy/marionweb/zs8.html (1278 words)

	Marion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marion may be used as a given name for both males and females, but the female form is usually Marian.
		Marion is also the name of a short-lived Britpop band.
		Marion Island, one of the Prince Edward Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marion (223 words)

	Inaccessible Island Geology
		The Tristan da Cunha group is one of a number of oceanic islands lying close to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: new oceanic crust is being produced along this ridge, and as crust is formed, the plates on either side of the ridge are being pushed apart.
		The Geology of Inaccessible Island is difficult to study, owing to the large depth of peat bog which covers the plateau in the centre of the island.
		The western and south-western parts of the island contain intruded masses of trachyte: these structures were injected into the active volcano and subsequently exposed by weathering.
	www.btinternet.com /~sa_sa/inaccessible_island/inaccessible_island_geology.html (416 words)

	Infraburo Project: Civil Services for New Research Base at Marion Island
		Marion Island has played an important role to South Africa since 1947 in terms of scientific research and as a weather station.
		Since the island consists to a large extent of mire (peat marsh), innovative solutions are required regarding the construction of the base.
		Furthermore, the preservation of the island in its pristine and unspoilt condition carries a high premium, which further taxes the innovation of all involved in the design standards to be adopted and methods of construction to be implemented.
	www.infraburo.co.za /projects/marion_island.htm (453 words)

	Marion Island, South Indian Ocean
		Marion Island lies at 46°52'34" South 37°51'32" East in the Southern Indian Ocean.
		Marion Island is 19 km long by 12 km wide, and the two islands have a combined area of 316 square km and politically form part of South Africa's Cape of Good Hope Province.
		Marion is the higher of the two islands, and State President Peak, it's highest point at 1,230m, is permanently covered in snow and ice.
	www.btinternet.com /~sa_sa/marion_island/marion_island.html (476 words)

	Marion and Prince Edward Islands
		Returning to the tale about Marion Island, the third ship involved in the annexation of the group was the coaster Gamtoos (which later became the last coal-fired coaster remaining in service on the South African coast).
		Marion Island lies 2,300km south east of Cape Town and is 290 square kilometres in extant.
		Mice were inadvertently introduced on Marion Island by sealers in the 19th century and these have evolved into smaller than normal creatures as a result of the climate.
	www.ports.co.za /didyouknow/article_2004_04_26_5728.html (2628 words)

	Marion Island
		Marion Island is one of two volcanic islands comprising the Prince Edward Group, which is located almost 1800km south-east of Port Elizabeth and is managed by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism as a Special Nature Reserve.
		Marion is visually dominated by over 100 volcanic cones comprising scoria and fl lavas that have erupted in the last 10 000 years, following the melting of the ice-sheets from Last Glacial Maximum (18 000 years ago).
		Geomorphological research on Marion Island is conducted in a collaborative project funded by the South African National Antarctic Programme with the Universities of Pretoria, Transkei and Uppsala (Sweden).
	www.up.ac.za /academic/geog/marion_island.html (1684 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra (AN1104)
		Marion Island is also the largest island in the world where this has ever been done (Bloomer and Bester 1992, cited in Cooper 1995a).
		Gremmen N.J.M. The vegetation of the Subantarctic islands Marion and Prince Edward.
		Gribnitz K.H., Kent L.E. and Dixon R.D. Volcanic ash, ash soils and the inferred Quaternary climate of sub-Antarctic Marion Island.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/an/an1104_full.html (8507 words)

	Emerging Research Fronts Comments by Valdon R. Smith
		No—although the Marion Island climate data set was one of the first to be analyzed to show how intense warming is occurring in the sub-Antarctic, that was done 14 years ago.
		Annual precipitation at Marion Island has decreased since the mid 1960s, so that the 1990s was the driest of the five decades that precipitation has been measured at the island.
		There is evidence that the island’s mouse population has increased since it was first studied in 1979/80, possibly due to climatic warming and/or the fact that the island’s feral population of domestic cats was eradicated in the early 1990s.
	www.esi-topics.com /erf/2004/october04-ValdonRSmith.html (2355 words)

	Marion Fauna
		The Prince Edward Island (PEI) group is one of the few sub-Antarctic islands that serve as the only breeding platforms fro a variety of seabirds and the PEI are the second most important island group in terms of species numbers.
		Cats were introduced to Marion in 1949 and became a huge conservation problem, luckily steps were put into place and the cats were eradicated and have not been seen on the island since 1991 (see Conservation).
		The spread of this slug around the island has been linked to helicopter activity where its habits of hiding under steel and plastic drums suggest that it was probably slung to the huts around the island while it clung to the cargo.
	academic.sun.ac.za /botzoo/CBP-CCR/marionFauna.htm (754 words)

	SANAP - Marion Island
		There are only three species of seal that breed on the Island, although solitary vagrants of other species are sometimes seen, and of course the surrounding ocean is rich in whales and dolphins.
		Elephant seals return to their island of birth to breed and moult, but the rest of the year they range widely, often visiting the continents adjoining the Southern Ocean, the pack-ice region and the Antarctic continent.
		The two fur seals found on Marion Island are similar in appearance (especially the females and pups), but the males can be told apart by the fl crest and ginger-brown belly of the Sub-Antarctic compared to the more uniform grey-brown of the Antarctic Fur seal.
	home.intekom.com /marion/fauna-mammals.html (717 words)

	[NASA] Monitoring Oceanic Islands with Satellite Remote Sensing
		This intriguing volcanic island is administered by South Africa and reflects the unique pattern of volcanism associated with the southern oceans.
		At present there are no trees on the island, but studies have suggested that a more diverse flora may have existed on the island in the recent past.
		The Landsat 7 image of the island, while partly cloud-covered, reveals the details of the more recent radial lava flows, which are raised in a fashion similar to many basaltic andesite flows in other localities.
	denali.gsfc.nasa.gov /islands/marion (179 words)

	SANAP - Marion Island
		Oceanic islands are incredibly important as breeding platforms for hosts of seabirds, where they are protected from the threats of mammalian predators and human disturbance.
		Of the sub-Antarctic islands, the Prince Edward Island group (which includes Marion Island) is the second most important in terms of number of species of breeding birds.
		The Marion breeding population is estimated at 398 000.
	marion.sanap.org.za /fauna-birds.html (693 words)

	Bird Island Light History
		A newspaper reported that the gale "was very destructive at that place; every movable thing being swept from the island by the sea, which rose so high that he [the keeper] was obliged to leave his dwelling house, with his family, and repair to the light house, that being the only safe retreat.
		In his letter on this subject he mentions his boat on the island, adding further reason to doubt that he was being held prisoner at the lighthouse.
		As was often the case on island lighthouse stations, the families on Bird Island kept animals to augment their food supply.
	www.lighthouse.cc /bird/history.html (1597 words)

	Marion Island
		Marion Island last erupted in 1980 from a fissure extending from the summit to west coast.
		The discovery of the island is accredited to the french explorer Nicolas Marion-Dufresne in 1772.
		The 30th Relief Team to Marion left Cape Town on 6.04.1973 on board the Ship MV "RSA" under the command of Captain McNish and arrived at Marion Island on the 12th of April.
	www.iomoon.com /marion.html (280 words)

	SANAP - Marion Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Marion Island is about 290 km square in area with 72 km of mostly cliff-face coastline.
		The island group was formally annexed by South Africa in 1947 and since then has been permanently occupied by South Africans.
		The research station built on the eastern coast houses a weather office and a variety of research programmes in the natural sciences are run.
	marion.sanap.org.za (116 words)

	CVO Menu - Indian Ocean Volcanoes and Volcanics
		Marion Island, South Africa's only historically active volcano, lies at the southwest end of a submarine plateau immediately south of the southwest Indian Ocean Ridge, opposite Prince Edward Island.
		The island is densely vegetated, bounded by cliffs on the southern side, and capped by three peaks.
		This region is a mixture of island hotspot volcanoes...
	vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /Volcanoes/IndianOcean/description_indian_ocean_volcanoes.html (1264 words)

	Bowers Harbor to Power Island - MI
		Power Island, also known as Marion or Ford Island, is a 200-acre island that is maintained as a park by Grand Traverse County.
		The island was privately owned in the 1800s and was named Marion Island in 1881, when the island was given to the owner's daughter, Marion.
		In 1906 there was a 50-x-100-foot dance hall on Bassett Island, which was called the "haunted island" or the "island of the dead" because local lore told a story of a Native American woman who was decapitated for "misbehaving." From 1917 to 1944 Henry Ford owned the island, and many called it Ford Island.
	www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?516 (769 words)

	Marion Island — 70South - Antarctic News, Antarctic Information, Interactive and Updated Daily... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Location: (46°52'34"S, 37°51'32"E) The Marion Island is situated in the Southern Atlantic ocean, and is built on an active volcano.
		The first recorded landing on the island was in 1803 by a group of sealers, but they found signs of earlier occupation.
		They were brought to the island to help exterminate a mouse problem in the base.
	www.70south.com /resources/antarctic-bases/marion-island (362 words)

	ZS6EZ: Marion Island ZS8
		The Prince Edward islands are South African territory, but are considered a separate DXCC entity because of their distance from the mainland.
		The island is administered by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, the agency responsible for weather services in South Africa.
		He was actually on the island, but did not obtain permission and would in any case not have been authorised to use HF with his restricted VHF-only licence.
	zs6ez.za.org /zs8.htm (1538 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Marion Island \| Monthly Reports
		During the first week in November [1980], research station personnel visiting the W side of Marion Island observed two new cinder cones, three small lava flows, and fresh tephra deposits, none of which were present when the scientists were last in the area in February.
		While conducting fieldwork in a mountainous area on the S part of the island, David Heddings was able to video an eruption that comprised gas and small pieces of scoria (a few centimeters in diameter).
		The last confirmed eruption on Marion took place in 1980 when ornithologists found a fresh basaltic lava flow on the W side of the Island.
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0304-07-&volpage=var (737 words)

	ZS8D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ZS8 is a callsign designated for the Prince Edward island group, Marion Island specifically.
		Marion Island is the most remote South African island placed about 2000km SE of Cape Town.
		ZS8D was given to myself, Deryck Yelverton, for the duration of my stay on Marion Island which terminates around the 29th of April 2000 when I touch South African soil again.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Matrix/3783 (494 words)

	Bird Island Lighthouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The goal of the Society was to restore the lighthouse structure, re-light the lantern, maintain the lighthouse and collect and preserve the island's history.
		Bird Island Light is not only one of Marion's most visible landmarks, but also a welcoming sign to sailors from around the world.
		Bird Island Lighthouse was built in 1819 and remained the only light in Buzzards Bay until 1837 when the light on Ned's Point in Mattapoisett was constructed.
	www.by-the-sea.com /birdislandlight (282 words)

	Marion, Ohio, History
		BIG ISLAND TOWNSHIP was doubtless organized in the early part of the first session that was held by the Commissioners after the organization of Marion County, which convened June 7, 1824; but a diligent search of the records has failed to reveal any formal entry of such organization.
		Marion had just recently been laid out, and at that time presented a less promising appearance than Claridon, but the wisdom of the selection has since been proven, as the division of the territory since made has placed it nearer the center of the county, besides other natural advantages.
		Claridon felt the blow at once, and the effect of the failure to secure the county seat was soon visible, for owing to this fact and the unusual sickness and death prevailing there during; the autumns of 1822 and 1823, many removals were made and emigration in that direction ceased for a time.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Marion/History1883/MarionTownship2.htm (15870 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra (AN1104) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The rocky, snowy, and icy islands of this ecoregion are home to a variety of sub-Antarctic species, such as albatrosses, penguins, and seals.
		The islands of this ecoregion are home to a variety of insects, birds, and marine mammals.
		Cats, brought to the islands to control the introduced mice, are especially threatening to breeding birds such as petrels.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/an/an1104.html (329 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| tech news Marion Island mice are shrinking
		Winters on Marion Island are so severe that house mice, introduced to the tiny South African territory almost two centuries ago, have shrunk.
		The island, one of two that make up the Prince Edward group, is located in the notorious Roaring Forties, 2300km south-east of Cape Town.
		In a section dealing with the island, it cites research by University of Pretoria scientists showing the mice have evolved to suit the harsh environment.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /technews/143808.htm (387 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Marion Island \| Summary
		Marion Island, South Africa's only historically active volcano, lies at the SW end of a submarine plateau immediately south of the SW Indian Ocean Ridge, opposite Prince Edward Island.
		The low profile of 24-km-wide dominantly basaltic and trachybasaltic Marion Island is formed by two young shield volcanoes that rise above a flat-topped submarine platform.
		The 1230-m-high island is dotted by about 150 cinder cones, smaller scoria cones, and coastal tuff cones.
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0304-07- (206 words)

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