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 |