List of volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands
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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes.
Name Elevation Location Last eruption
meters feet Coordinates
Bristol Island
Bristol Island
Bristol Island is an long island lying midway between Montagu Island and Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands.Bristol Island is composed of several active volcanoes with eruptions reported in 1823, 1935, 1936, 1950 and 1956.-History:...

 
1100 3609 59.03°S 26.58°W 1956
Candlemas Island
Candlemas Island
Candlemas Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It lies about from Vindication Island, separated by the Nelson Channel....

 
550 1804 57.08°S 26.67°W 1911
Mount Hodson
Mount Hodson
Mount Hodson is an ice-covered stratovolcano and the highest point on Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands. It might have erupted in 1830 and 1930, and the summit usually steams....

 
1005 3297 56.70°S 21.15°W 1930
Leskov Island
Leskov Island
Leskov Island is a small uninhabited island in the Traversay Islands group of the South Sandwich Islands. It is less than long, and lies west of Visokoi Island...

 
190 623 56.67°S 28.13°W Holocene
Mount Michael
Mount Michael
Mount Michael is an active volcanic mountain, 805 m, surmounting Saunders Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It is a part of the British Overseas Territory, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and is one of the few volcanos in the United Kingdom...

 
990 3248 57.78°S 26.45°W 2005
Mount Belinda
Mount Belinda
Mount Belinda is a stratovolcano located on Montagu Island, in the South Sandwich Islands of the Scotia Sea. A part of the British Overseas Territory, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, it is considered the only active volcano in the United Kingdom.Belinda was inactive until late...

 
1370 4495 58.42°S 26.33°W 2006
Protector Shoal
Protector Shoal
Protector Shoal is a submarine volcano, also called seamount, which rises gently from an ocean depth of 1200 meters to about below sea level 56 km to the northwest of Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich Islands chain. The last eruption occurred during March 1962. Protector Shoal is the...

 
-27 -89 55.92°S 28.08°E 1962
Thule Island
Thule Island
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the earth...

 
1075 3526 59.45°S 27.37°W 1986
Mount Curry
Mount Curry
Mount Asphyxia is a prominent volcanic cone reaching to , forming the summit of Zavodovski Island, northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands....

551 1808 56.30°S 27.57°W 1819
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