Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly of the

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, close to

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 ...

and Cook Island, and forming part of the

Southern Thule Southern Thule is a collection of the three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands: Bellingshausen, Cook, and Thule (Morrell). The island group is barren, windswept, bitterly cold, and uninhabited. It has an extensive exclusive ...

group. It is named after its discoverer,

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explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen (1778–1852). The island is a

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, and the latest crater, about across and deep, formed explosively some time between 1968 and 1984. Highest point is Basilisk Peak at . Its southeast point is called Isaacson Point; first charted by

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personnel on the ''

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'' in 1930 and named for Ms. S.M. Isaacson, an assistant to the staff of the

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Photos of the island can be found at: * http://www.photo.antarctica.ac.uk/external/guest/detail/personal/10005836/1/8 * http://cedric-in-antarctica-2009.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html Islands of the South Sandwich Islands Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub

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