Breakbones Plateau is a small lava plateau just north of
Chimaera Flats on
Candlemas Island
Candlemas Island ( es, Isla Candelaria) 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.
On the northwest flank of the island is an act ...
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. The feature is an interesting biological area containing numerous small fumaroles with attendant vegetation. The name applied by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
in 1971 refers both to the difficulty of travel and to the presence of a large breeding colony of giant petrels (''
Macronectes giganteus
The southern giant petrel (''Macronectes giganteus''), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar northern giant pet ...
''), sometimes known as "breakbones".
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Plateaus of Antarctica
Landforms of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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