Vapour Col is a col lying south of Stonethrow Ridge on the west side of

Deception Island Deception Island is an island in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally troubled by the underlying active volcano. This island is the caldera of an acti ...

in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 1 ...

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. The name given by the

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(UK-APC) in 1959 originates from the

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s in the col.Vapour Col: Antarctica
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA. 2012. 019-01-07 This is the only locality on Deception Island where there is a complete cross section through the stratigraphy of volcanic succession. Having a similar name in the same island is the

Fumarole Bay Fumarole Bay is a bay on the southwest side of Port Foster in the interior of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Having a similar name in the same island is the Vapour Col. The bay is part of the larger, enclosed water of Port Fos ...

(also known in the

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as Bahía Primero de Mayo).

Important Bird Area

A 148 tract of ice-free land rising steeply from the south-western shore of Deception Island to 340 m, and including Vapour Col, has been identified an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 75,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins.

References

Mountain passes of the South Shetland Islands Important Bird Areas of Antarctica Penguin colonies Geography of Deception Island {{DeceptionIsland-geo-stub