Selon la classification de Köppen Le climat de l'île Gough est de type (Cfb) c'est-à-dire un climat océanique. Snow falls in the interior, but is rare at sea level[18]. L'île abrite également deux espèces endémiques d'oiseaux terrestres, le rowettie de Gough et la gallinule de Gough ainsi qu'une douzaine de plantes endémiques.

SC037654, Gough Island Restoration 2021 gets underway, Life on a tiny rock in the South Atlantic during a global pandemic, Burrowing Petrels on Gough Island, and the ‘Downward Bird’ pose, Mice Predation on Prions continues on Gough Island, A leucistic sub-Antarctic fur seal: a first for Gough Island and a first for the species, Tristan Albatross breeding success is too low, The southerly breeze brings success: Counting incubating Tristan albatross on Gough Island. Gough and Inaccessible Island are a protected wildlife reserve, which has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Each year a new overwintering team arrives by ship from Cape Town (beginning in 2012, the S. A. Agulhas II) to staff the weather station and perform scientific research. en_ZA: … Base: dc.subject: Coast: dc.subject: Gough Island: dc.subject: Landscapes: dc.subject: Gough 13: dc.title: View of base and ocean from Gough Island: dc.type: Images: iso19115.mdconstraints.uselimitation: This item and the content of this website are subject to copyright protection. Mais selon certains historiens, le marchand anglais Anthony de la Roché aurait été le premier à accoster sur l'île en avril 1675[2]. ", "South Africa National Antarctic Programme - Gough Island Teams", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gough_Island&oldid=979514737, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 September 2020, at 06:02. Au XVIIIe et au XIXe siècles, les éléphants de mer et surtout les otaries à fourrure ont attiré des chasseurs pour leur graisse et leur peaux. By W. Campbell Smith. [7][8][9], Charles Gough rediscovered the island on 3 March 1732, thinking it was a new find. Seuls les scientifiques ont régulièrement fréquenté l'île. People and cargo are landed either by helicopter, from a helideck-equipped supply ship, or by a fixed crane atop a cliff near the station (a place aptly called "Crane Point"). It had been named Gonçalo Álvares since 1505 after the captain of Vasco da Gama's flagship on his epic voyage to the east, and under this name it was marked with reasonable accuracy on the charts of the South Atlantic during the following 230 or so years. Because cold fronts approach South Africa from the south-west, the Gough station is particularly important in forecasting winter weather.

Elle fait 13 km de long sur 7 km de large. Wace, N.M. (1969). Chris, Michelle... Blog by Jaimie Cleeland After a year full of adventure on Gough Island the time has come to say goodbye. Six months after having made the devastating decision to postpone the 2020 restoration of Gough Island, our team is back in strength and ... Blog by Michelle Risi, Gough Field Assistant Being on one of the most remote islands in the world during a global pandemic is seemingly o... Blog by Michelle Jones, Gough Field Assistant Despite surface nesting seabirds, like albatrosses and giant petrels often stealing the lim... Blog by Alexis Osborne, Gough Island Field Assistant House mice (Mus musculus) were introduced to Gough Island in the 19th century. Portuguese navigator Goncalo Alvarez. Gough Island already has a number of stunning seabirds, but last weeks visit from an Indian yellow-nosed albatross Thalassarche carteri was a first for Gough Island! L'île Gough [gɔf], aussi connue sous le nom de Gonçalo Álvares, est une des îles de l'archipel britannique Tristan da Cunha, située sur les quarantièmes rugissants dans l'Atlantique Sud. On some later maps, this was erroneously given as Diego Alvarez. It includes small satellite islands and rocks such as Southwest Island, Saddle Island (South), Tristiana Rock, Isolda Rock (West), Round Island, Cone Island, Lot's Wife, Church Rock (North), Penguin Island (Northeast), and The Admirals (East). Elles mangent les œufs et poussins des oiseaux de l'île, menaçant leur survie. Gough 13: dc.title: The base on Gough Island viewed from ship: dc.type: Images: iso19115.mdconstraints.uselimitation: This item and the content of this website are subject to copyright protection. Gough Island (/ ɡ ɒ f /), also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares after the Portuguese explorer, is a rugged volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Ces aliments attirent poissons, poulpes et crustacés qui, à leur tour, entrent dans l’alimentation des oiseaux marins qui, en grand nombre, nidifient chaque année sur Gough. Gough Island is roughly rectangular with a length of 13 km (8.1 mi) and a width of 7 kilometres (4.3 mi). Gough Island (/ɡɒf/), also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares after the Portuguese explorer, is a rugged volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. In particular, it is host to almost the entire world population of the Tristan albatross (Diomedea dabbenena) and the Atlantic petrel (Pterodroma incerta).

[12] The sealing era lasted from 1804 to 1910 during which 34 sealing vessels are known to have visited the island, one of which was lost offshore. Indian yellow-nosed albatross: a first for Gough Island! The grant also paid for the assessment of a rat problem on Tristan da Cunha island.

The name was later corrupted to I. Diego Alvarez. [28] As of October 2018, it is estimated that as many as 2,000,000 fewer eggs and chicks are being raised due to the impact of mice on the island, threatening the extinction of several species of seabirds that breed exclusively or nearly exclusively on Gough Island.

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The RSPB is a member of BirdLife International. Gough Island's high temperatures are between 11 °C (52 °F) and 17 °C (63 °F) during the day year-round, due to its isolated position far out in the Atlantic Ocean. Inspecting the Stevenson screen on Gough Island (photo taken 1978) Gough Island is 91 km² big. Each new team directly replaces the departing one, thereby maintaining a continual human presence on the island.[33][34]. À cette latitude, les eaux froides antarctiques rencontrent les eaux tropicales. Des souris, introduites non intentionnellement par l'Homme, constituent une menace pour la biodiversité de l'île. Birds for which the IBA has conservation significance include northern rockhopper penguins (30,000 breeding pairs), Tristan albatrosses (1500–2000 pairs), sooty albatrosses (5000 pairs), Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses (5000 pairs), broad-billed prions (1,750,000 pairs), Kerguelen petrels (20,000 pairs), soft-plumaged petrels (400,000 pairs), Atlantic petrels (900,000 pairs), great-winged petrels (5000 pairs), grey petrels (10,000 pairs), great shearwaters (100,000 pairs), little shearwaters (10,000 pairs), grey-backed storm petrels (10,000 pairs), white-faced storm petrels (10,000 pairs), white-bellied storm petrels (10,000 pairs), Antarctic terns (500 pairs), southern skuas (500 pairs), Gough moorhens (2500 pairs) and Gough buntings (3000 individuals).[25]. It is one of the most remote places with a constant human presence.

C $2.82; Buy It Now +C $2.82 shipping; From Spain; SPONSORED. The island has a large breeding population of subantarctic fur seals and some southern right whales still migrate around the island. Precipitation is high during the entire year, and sunshine hours are few. According to the Köppen system, Gough Island features an oceanic climate (Cfb). The details of the discovery of Gough Island are unclear, but the most likely occasion is July 1505 by the Portuguese explorer Gonçalo Álvares. [29] The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds awarded £62,000 by the UK government's Overseas Territories Environment Programme to fund additional research on the Gough Island mice and a feasibility study of how best to deal with them. [17] Topographic features include the highest peak, Edinburgh Peak, Hags Tooth, Mount Rowett, Sea Elephant Bay, Quest Bay, and Hawkins Bay.

The Gough Island Scientific Survey. The island was first named Ilha de Gonçalo Álvares on Portuguese maps. C $119.65; or Best Offer +C $23.93 shipping; From United States; SPONSORED. © The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a registered charity: England and Wales no. Île d'origine volcanique, elle émerge à plus de 900 mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer et a une superficie d'environ 65 km2. Les Britanniques ont fait de Gough un parc naturel. As a result, summers are not very hot. C … It is about 400 km (250 mi) south-east of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago (which includes Nightingale Island and Inaccessible Island), 2,400 km (1,500 mi) north-east from South Georgia Island, 2,700 km (1,700 mi) west from Cape Town, and over 3,200 km (2,000 mi) from the nearest point of South America. On 11 February 2014 a member of the research team choked to death[citation needed] on the island and his body was taken back to South Africa. Fifty years later cartographers realised that the two islands were the same, and despite the priority of the Portuguese discovery, and the greater accuracy of the position given by them, "Gough's Island" was the name adopted. ", "The impacts of introduced House Mice on the breeding success of nesting seabirds on Gough Island", "Preparations for the eradication of mice from Gough Island: results of bait acceptance trials above ground and around cave systems", "Globally important islands where eradicating invasive mammals will benefit highly threatened vertebrates", "Should we cull one species to save another? Their base at The Glen offered the only reliable access inland.

Gough Island is uninhabited except for the personnel of a weather station (usually six people) which the South African National Antarctic Programme has maintained, with British permission, continually on the island since 1956. Elle sombra ensuite dans l'oubli jusqu'à sa redécouverte en 1731 par l'Anglais Charles Gough. The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International for its endemic landbirds and as a breeding site for seabirds. The inception of this programme in 2020 was confirmed in 2018. The Atlantic is much cooler in the southern hemisphere than the northern, but frosts are still very rare. Peaks rise to 900 m above sea level.

[31], The proposed cull has been criticised by some animal rights groups, with the director of Animal Aid stating "We don’t feel we have the right to choose some animals over others ... We don’t agree with any culling for so-called conservation purposes.

According to some historians, the British merchant Anthony de la Roché was the first to land on the island, in the austral autumn of 1675. Initially it was housed in the station at The Glen, but moved in 1963 to the South lowlands of the island, more precisely 40°20′57.68″S 9°52′49.13″W / 40.3493556°S 9.8803139°W / -40.3493556; -9.8803139. Gough Island is the only place outside South America from which the solar eclipse of September 12, 2034(excluding partial phases), will be visible; the centre of the path of totality crosses over the island. [2][3][4] However, the most likely explanation is that it was simply a misreading of 'Is de Go Alvarez', the name by which the island is represented on some of the early charts, the 'de Go' mutating into 'Diego'.[5].

[16] In 1995, the island was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.