Hasselwood Rock
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Hasselwood Rock is a skerry
adjacent to Rockall
in the northern part of Atlantic Ocean
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The rock is approximately 1 metre above low water, 13 metres in diameter, with an area of approximately 130 sq. metres. It is covered at high tide and in heavy seas, often only visible, as in the photograph below, as breaking waves. There are no sources of fresh water found on the rock, which is uninhabitable. The only other rocks in the area, those of Helen's Reef
, are situated almost 2 kilometers to the north-east.
Expeditions and landings have not been reported. The geological composition is unknown and not yet analysed.
, carrying 727 passengers and 68 staff members, on its way to New York
crashed on the rock and sank, killing 635 passengers.
Skerry
A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack....
adjacent to Rockall
Rockall
Rockall is an extremely small, uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. It gives its name to one of the sea areas named in the shipping forecast provided by the British Meteorological Office....
in the northern part of Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
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Position and characteristics
Its upper part is the destroyed cone of an extinct volcano, situated 200 meters north of the larger outcrop of RockallRockall
Rockall is an extremely small, uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. It gives its name to one of the sea areas named in the shipping forecast provided by the British Meteorological Office....
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The rock is approximately 1 metre above low water, 13 metres in diameter, with an area of approximately 130 sq. metres. It is covered at high tide and in heavy seas, often only visible, as in the photograph below, as breaking waves. There are no sources of fresh water found on the rock, which is uninhabitable. The only other rocks in the area, those of Helen's Reef
Helen's Reef
Helen's Reef is a series of skerries in the North Atlantic, 2km to the North-East of the larger Islet of Rockall and outcrop of Hasselwood Rock....
, are situated almost 2 kilometers to the north-east.
Expeditions and landings have not been reported. The geological composition is unknown and not yet analysed.
History
On 28 June 1904 the steamship NorgeSS Norge
SS Norge was a Danish passenger liner sailing from Copenhagen, Oslo and Kristiansand to New York, mainly with emigrants, which sank off Rockall in 1904 in the biggest civilian maritime disaster in the Atlantic Ocean up to that time....
, carrying 727 passengers and 68 staff members, on its way to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
crashed on the rock and sank, killing 635 passengers.