Clipperton Rock Explained

Clipperton Rock
Elevation M:	29
Country:	France

Clipperton Rock is the highest point on Clipperton Island at 29 metres above sea level.

Geography

Clipperton Rock is located in the southeast of Clipperton Island.^[1] It constitutes the only emerged point of a chain of submarine mountains and volcanoes known as the East Pacific Rise.^[2] It is composed of trachyandesite and constitutes the last fragment of the neck of the volcano before becoming dormant.^{[3] [4]}

Elongated in shape and approximately a hundred meters in length the rock has many cavities large enough to walk though. It rises to an altitude of 29 meters,^[5] almost entirely surrounded by the waters of the lagoon it is only connected to the rest of the atoll by a narrow strip of land to the east. A geodetic marker from the IGN has been affixed to the rock.^[6]

References

1. Sachet . Marie-Hélène . 1962 . Geography and land ecology of Clipperton Island . Atoll Research Bulletin . en . 86 . 1–115 . 10.5479/si.00775630.86.1. 10088/5030 .
2. Menard . H. W. . Fisher . Robert L. . 1958 . Clipperton Fracture Zone in the Northeastern Equatorial Pacific . The Journal of Geology . en . 66 . 3 . 239–253 . 10.1086/626502 . 1958JG.....66..239M . 0022-1376.
3. Teall . J. J. H. . 1898 . A Phosphatized Trachyte from Clipperton Atoll (Northern Pacific) . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London . en . 54 . 1–4 . 230–233 . 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1898.054.01-04.20 . 0370-291X.
4. Book: Darwin, Charles . Geological Observations on Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, and on South America . 1851 . Smith, Elder, And Company . 978-0-520-32733-7 . London, England, United Knigdom . en . 10.1525/9780520327337.
5. Stager . Kenneth E. . 1964 . The Birds of Clipperton Island, Eastern Pacific . The Condor . 66 . 5 . 357–371 . 10.2307/1365428 . 1365428 . 1938-5129.
6. Tchékémian . Anthony . Leleu . Patrick . 2024 . La Passion-Clipperton : Traces anthropiques sur un atoll français inhabité, dans l'océan Pacifique . La Passion-Clipperton: Anthropogenic traces on an uninhabited French atoll, in the Pacific Ocean . Archéologie, société et environnement . fr . 4 . 1 . 1–45 . 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1155.