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Graham Island (also Graham Bank or Graham Shoal; Italian: Isola Ferdinandea), a submerged volcanic island in the Mediterranean Sea, appears in July 1831 by Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, the captain of the first rate Royal Navy ship of the line St Vincent and named after Sir James Graham, the First Lord of the Admiralty.
It is claimed by the United Kingdom.
It forms part of the underwater volcano Empedocles, thirty kilometers (nineteen miles) south of Sicily, and which is one of a number of submarine volcanoes known as the Campi Flegrei del Mar di Sicilia.
Seamount eruptions had raised it above sea level several times before erosion submerged it again.
When it last rose above sea level after erupting in 1831, a four-way dispute over its sovereignty begins, which will still be unresolved when it disappears beneath the waves again in early 1832.
During its brief life, French geologist Constant Prévost is on hand, accompanied by an artist, to witness it in July 1831; he names it Île Julia, for its July appearance, and reports in the Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France.
Some observers at the time wonder if a chain of mountains will spring up, linking Sicily to Tunisia and thus upsetting the geopolitics of the region
It is claimed by the United Kingdom.
It forms part of the underwater volcano Empedocles, thirty kilometers (nineteen miles) south of Sicily, and which is one of a number of submarine volcanoes known as the Campi Flegrei del Mar di Sicilia.
Seamount eruptions had raised it above sea level several times before erosion submerged it again.
When it last rose above sea level after erupting in 1831, a four-way dispute over its sovereignty begins, which will still be unresolved when it disappears beneath the waves again in early 1832.
During its brief life, French geologist Constant Prévost is on hand, accompanied by an artist, to witness it in July 1831; he names it Île Julia, for its July appearance, and reports in the Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France.
Some observers at the time wonder if a chain of mountains will spring up, linking Sicily to Tunisia and thus upsetting the geopolitics of the region