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AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM) , an uninhabited and almost inaccessible island in the Indian Ocean, in 370 47' S., and 770 34' E., about 6o m. N. of St Paul Island
Hope
extinct
volcano
Magellan
vessel , the " Zeewolf, " in 1617. In 1871 the British frigate " Megaera " was wrecked here, and most of the 400 persons on board had to remain upwards of three months on the island. The Memoires of a Frenchman, Captain Francois Peron (Paris, 1824), who was marooned three years on the island (1792-1795), are of much interest
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