Demon Point () is a spit of coarse boulders which forms the northeast tip of

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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. It was charted and named "Spit Point" by personnel of the RRS ''Discovery II'' in 1930, but that name was changed to avoid duplication. The new name applied by the

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in 1971 continues a theme of features named after mythical monsters on this island.

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