Psilaster andromeda Psilaster andromeda Psilaster andromeda is a species of starfish in the family Astropectinidae. It is native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean where it occurs at abyssal depths. "Psilaster andromeda" is a deep water species of starfish native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Its range extends from Murmansk and the coasts of Norway to the Faeroes, the Kattegat, the United Kingdom and the Bay of Biscay. It is present in the Rockall Trough. It is found in Norwegian fiords on muddy bottoms at depths of . It is also found in the Porcupine Seabight and on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain in
Rockall often given as 8 July 1810, when a Royal Navy officer named Basil Hall led a small landing party from the frigate to the summit. However, research by James Fisher of the landing (see below), in the log of the Endymion and elsewhere, indicates that the actual date for this first landing was on Sunday 8 September 1811. The landing party left the "Endymion" for the rock by boat. Whilst there, the "Endymion", which was taking depth measurements around Rockall, lost visual contact with the rock as a haze descended. The ship drifted away, leaving the landing party stranded. The