Cauldron Pool () is a hot, brackish steaming pond located east of
Tow Bay and below the west slopes of volcanically active
Lucifer Hill, in northwest
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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South Sandwich Islands
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. The descriptive name, suggestive of a
cauldron, was applied by the
UK 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.
References
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Lakes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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