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/ Weltreise 2024 vom 7.1.-2.5.2024
De 26.2.24 em 12:30 Auer se mer aus der Osthalschent an déi Westhalschent vun der Erd gefuer.
Dënsdig, 27.2.2024:
Mir ware well em 7:00 hei bei der Insel St Helena; well mer awer mat Tenderen riwer fuere mussen, dauert et bis ich riwer ka fueren. Em 11:30 war ich richt op der Insel.
Hei besse Gelogie vun der Insel:
In geological terms St Helena is very young. Its origins lie in the Mid-Atlantic ridge and the outpouring of molten rock from between the diverging African and Latin American tectonic plates, as first postulated in 1836 by Charles Darwin.
The island is an isolated, broadly conical volcanic structure, rising more than 4,000 metres above the ocean floor with a base perimeter of 255Km, the island itself being just the top of the volcano with only a small amount (around 5%) of it is exposed above the sea. The island may be small but its supporting structure is immense: the base on the sea floor measures some 130km in diameter and the volume of the cone is estimated to be twenty times that of the largest European volcano, Mount Etna.
St Helena actually results from two separate volcanic eruptions. That in the north-eastern part of the island is the oldest. This erupted about 15 million years ago near what is now Flagstaff. A second series of eruptions, following a more complicated pattern, occurred to the south-west, around Sandy Bay, between 10 and 7 million years ago, which partially overlaid the old volcano.
Despite its volcanic origin, volcanic activity is no longer a threat to St Helena. Tectonic movement since the last eruption has carried the island some way from the active part of the ridge. St Helena is on the African tectonic plate (east of the Mid-Atlantic ridge), so our distance from Africa remains constant but we are moving away from South America at a rate of approximately 2cm per annum.
D'Insel ass 16 x 8 km gruuss a leit 1 950 km westlich vu Südafrika a 4 000 km östlich vu Rio.
Jamestown, d'Haaptstad, leit deelweis ennen an engem Dal a deelweis uewen op der Kop. Vum Dal geet eng laang Trap vun 699 hihen Trépleken, d'Jacob's Ladder, rop bei de Ladde Hill Fort. Si war gebaut ginn fir d'Munitioun ropzedroen. Hett geet awer och eng Stroos rop. Ech war déi 699 Trépleken ropgaangen an iwert d?stroos rep de Fouswee rem rof.
D'insel ass awer virun allem bekannt, well de Napoleon do am Exil war vun 1816 - 1821. Seng Wunnung war uewen op der Insel 15 km vum Hafen.
Vun Owes dem 27. Februar bis Sonndes, Moies, 3. Mäerz se mer lo 4 Dee um Meer a mussen bal all Dag d'Auer eng Stonn zréckdréien. Rio leit an der Zeitzon GMT-3 a Südafrika an der Zon GMT+2.
D'Wieder as tropisch, gudd warem; mir senn em de 15. Breitekrees.
Moies spille mer rem Bridge; Mettes em 15:00 ass rem de Quiz während 3 Dee. Mir hu rem déiselwigt Equipe wi di letzte Kier. Em 16:00 spillen d'Dany, Marcel an ech Shuffleboard.
Dënsdig, 27.2.2024:
Mir ware well em 7:00 hei bei der Insel St Helena; well mer awer mat Tenderen riwer fuere mussen, dauert et bis ich riwer ka fueren. Em 11:30 war ich richt op der Insel.
Hei besse Gelogie vun der Insel:
In geological terms St Helena is very young. Its origins lie in the Mid-Atlantic ridge and the outpouring of molten rock from between the diverging African and Latin American tectonic plates, as first postulated in 1836 by Charles Darwin.
The island is an isolated, broadly conical volcanic structure, rising more than 4,000 metres above the ocean floor with a base perimeter of 255Km, the island itself being just the top of the volcano with only a small amount (around 5%) of it is exposed above the sea. The island may be small but its supporting structure is immense: the base on the sea floor measures some 130km in diameter and the volume of the cone is estimated to be twenty times that of the largest European volcano, Mount Etna.
St Helena actually results from two separate volcanic eruptions. That in the north-eastern part of the island is the oldest. This erupted about 15 million years ago near what is now Flagstaff. A second series of eruptions, following a more complicated pattern, occurred to the south-west, around Sandy Bay, between 10 and 7 million years ago, which partially overlaid the old volcano.
Despite its volcanic origin, volcanic activity is no longer a threat to St Helena. Tectonic movement since the last eruption has carried the island some way from the active part of the ridge. St Helena is on the African tectonic plate (east of the Mid-Atlantic ridge), so our distance from Africa remains constant but we are moving away from South America at a rate of approximately 2cm per annum.
D'Insel ass 16 x 8 km gruuss a leit 1 950 km westlich vu Südafrika a 4 000 km östlich vu Rio.
Jamestown, d'Haaptstad, leit deelweis ennen an engem Dal a deelweis uewen op der Kop. Vum Dal geet eng laang Trap vun 699 hihen Trépleken, d'Jacob's Ladder, rop bei de Ladde Hill Fort. Si war gebaut ginn fir d'Munitioun ropzedroen. Hett geet awer och eng Stroos rop. Ech war déi 699 Trépleken ropgaangen an iwert d?stroos rep de Fouswee rem rof.
D'insel ass awer virun allem bekannt, well de Napoleon do am Exil war vun 1816 - 1821. Seng Wunnung war uewen op der Insel 15 km vum Hafen.
Vun Owes dem 27. Februar bis Sonndes, Moies, 3. Mäerz se mer lo 4 Dee um Meer a mussen bal all Dag d'Auer eng Stonn zréckdréien. Rio leit an der Zeitzon GMT-3 a Südafrika an der Zon GMT+2.
D'Wieder as tropisch, gudd warem; mir senn em de 15. Breitekrees.
Moies spille mer rem Bridge; Mettes em 15:00 ass rem de Quiz während 3 Dee. Mir hu rem déiselwigt Equipe wi di letzte Kier. Em 16:00 spillen d'Dany, Marcel an ech Shuffleboard.