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Candlemas Island ( es, Isla Candelaria) is a small uninhabited island of the
Candlemas Islands The Candlemas Islands ( es, Islas Candelaria) are a group of small uninhabited islands lying at the northern part of the South Sandwich Islands, southeast of Visokoi Island. They consist of Candlemas Island and Vindication Island, divided by ...
in the
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. It lies about from
Vindication Island Vindication Island ( es, Isla VindicaciĂ³n) is a small uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands. It lies about from Candlemas Island, separated by the Nelson Channel. The island is mostly ice free. Geography This small island is part of ...
, separated by the
Nelson Channel Nelson Channel is a navigable channel between Candlemas and Vindication Islands in Candlemas Islands group, in the South Sandwich Islands. First roughly charted by Captain James Cook, discoverer of these islands in 1775. Recharted in 1930 by DI ...
. On the northwest flank of the island is an active
stratovolcano A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile with a summit crater and per ...
, Lucifer Hill, that showed signs of activity in 1911 and glowing lava flows during 1953–1954. Mount Andromeda and Mount Perseus are both glacier-covered peaks on the island. Mount Andromeda is the island's highest point, with an elevation of . The island's southeast point is called Shrove Point (). It was named by
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Discovery II ''Discovery II'', built in 1971, is the second of three Discovery sternwheel riverboats operated by the Riverboat Discovery company. ''Discovery II'' is still in use as a tour vessel on the Chena and Tanana rivers near Fairbanks, Alaska. Hist ...
'' because they charted it on
Shrove Tuesday Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession and absolution, the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy Week palms, finalizing one's Lenten s ...
, March 4, 1930. Clapmatch Point forms the southwest point of the island. Candlemas Island is the setting of a novel by Ian Cameron, ''The White Ship'' (1975), which tells of a disastrous expedition to the island in 1975 where members of the expedition must contend with ghosts of Spaniards shipwrecked on the island in 1818.


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Breakbones Plateau Breakbones Plateau is a small lava plateau just north of Chimaera Flats on Candlemas Island, South Sandwich Islands. The feature is an interesting biological area containing numerous small fumaroles with attendant vegetation. The name applied by ...
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List of volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in the South Sandwich Islands. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands South Sandwich Islands ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = , song = , image_ma ...
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Tomblin Rock Tomblin Rock () is an isolated rock 0.6 nautical miles (1.1 km) east-southeast of Demon Point, Candlemas Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. It is 24 meters high. (there termed ''Black Rock'') It is more than 50 meters long north–south, ...


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volcano.und.edu
Islands of the South Sandwich Islands Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Active volcanoes Uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub