South Sandwich Islands, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 50 relations: Antarctic Peninsula, Atlantic Ocean, Automatic weather station, Bellingshausen Island, Bristol Island, British Overseas Territories, Candlemas Island, Candlemas Islands, Clerke Rocks, Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands, Corbeta Uruguay base, Earthquake, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Falkland Islands Dependencies, Falklands War, First Lord of the Admiralty, Forsters Passage, Hawaiian Islands, Island arc, James Cook, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Lava lake, Leskov Island, Letters patent, List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, List of uninhabited regions, Mikhail Lazarev, Montagu Island, Mount Andromeda (South Sandwich Islands), Mount Asphyxia, Mount Belinda, Mount Hodson, Mount Michael, Protector Shoal, Quadrant Peak, Richter scale, Russian Navy, Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands, South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Southern Thule, Subantarctic, The New York Times, Thule Island, Traversay Islands, Vindication Island, Visokoi Island, Weather station, Zavodovski Island, 2021 South Sandwich Islands earthquakes.

2. Antarctic region
3. Islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
4. Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean
5. Volcanic arc islands

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Automatic weather station

An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labor or to enable measurements from remote areas.

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Bellingshausen Island

Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group.

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Bristol Island

Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean.

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British Overseas Territories

The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are the 14 territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory.

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Candlemas Island

Candlemas Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands.

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Candlemas Islands

The Candlemas Islands (Islas Candelaria) are a group of small uninhabited islands in the northern part of the South Sandwich Islands, in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Clerke Rocks

The Clerke Rocks are a group of small rocky islands some southeast of South Georgia that extend from east to west.

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Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands

Cook Island is the central and largest island of the Southern Thule island group, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean.

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Corbeta Uruguay base

Corbeta Uruguay base was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on Thule Island, Southern Thule, in the South Sandwich Islands.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (–) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.

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Falkland Islands Dependencies

The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the various British territories in Sub-Antarctica and Antarctica which were governed from the Falkland Islands and its capital Stanley.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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First Lord of the Admiralty

The First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the political head of the English and later British Royal Navy.

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Forsters Passage

Forsters Passage (Pasaje Forster) is a body of water between Bristol Island and Southern Thule in the South Sandwich Islands.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Island arc

Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS (13 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten.

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Lava lake

Lava lakes are large volumes of molten lava, usually basaltic, contained in a volcanic vent, crater, or broad depression.

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Leskov Island

Leskov Island is one of the three Traversay Islands that form a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean.

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Letters patent

Letters patent (plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title or status to a person or corporation.

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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.

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List of uninhabited regions

The list of uninhabited regions includes a number of places around the globe.

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Mikhail Lazarev

Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (Михаил Петрович Лазарев) was a Russian fleet commander and an explorer.

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Montagu Island

Montagu Island is the largest of the South Sandwich Islands, located in the Scotia Sea off the coast of Antarctica.

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Mount Andromeda (South Sandwich Islands)

Mount Andromeda is, at, the higher and more southerly of the twin ice domes, this one marking the summit of Candlemas Island, South Sandwich Islands.

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Mount Asphyxia

Mount Asphyxia, also known as Mount Curry, is a prominent volcanic cone reaching to, forming the summit of Zavodovski Island, northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands.

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Mount Belinda

Mount Belinda is a stratovolcano on Montagu Island, in the South Sandwich Islands of the Scotia Sea.

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Mount Hodson

Mount Hodson is an ice-covered stratovolcano and the highest point on Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands.

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Mount Michael

Mount Michael is an active volcano with a height of 843m.

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Protector Shoal

Protector Shoal is the shallowest point of the Protector Seamounts, a group of submarine volcanoes in the Southern Ocean.

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Quadrant Peak

Quadrant Peak (Pico Cuadrante) is a peak (430 m) forming the summit of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands.

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Richter scale

The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale".

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Russian Navy

The Russian Navy is part of the Russian Armed Forces.

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Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands

Saunders Island is a crescent-shaped island lying between Candlemas Island and Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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South Georgia

South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. South Sandwich Islands and south Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are Antarctic region, islands of the South Atlantic Ocean and volcanic arc islands.

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Southern Thule

Southern Thule is a group of the three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean: Bellingshausen, Cook, and Thule (Morrell).

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Subantarctic

The subantarctic zone is a region in the Southern Hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region. South Sandwich Islands and subantarctic are Antarctic region.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thule Island

Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule.

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Traversay Islands

The Traversay Islands (Archipiélago Marqués de Traverse) are a group of three islands—Zavodovski, Leskov and Visokoi—at the northern end of the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Vindication Island

Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands.

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Visokoi Island

Visokoi Island is an uninhabited volcanic island and one the three Traversay Islands that constitute a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean.

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Weather station

A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate.

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Zavodovski Island

Zavodovski Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Traversay Islands subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, which are located southeast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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2021 South Sandwich Islands earthquakes

The 2021 South Sandwich Islands earthquakes were a pair of powerful earthquakes, followed by many strong aftershocks which struck along the South Sandwich Trench in August 2021.

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See also

Antarctic region

• Antarctic
• Antarctic Circle
• Antarctic realm
• Antarctic sea ice
• Antarctica
• Antarctica: The Battle for the Seventh Continent
• Australian Antarctic Territory
• Bellingshausen Sea
• Bouvet Island
• British Antarctic Territory
• Cooperation Sea
• Cosmonauts Sea
• D'Urville Sea
• Davis Sea
• Drake Passage
• Grytviken
• Herschel Island (Chile)
• Kyiv Peninsula
• Late Cenozoic Ice Age
• Lazarev Sea
• Mawson Sea
• Riiser-Larsen Sea
• Ross Sea
• Scotia Sea
• Somov Sea
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• South Sandwich Islands
• Subantarctic
• Tasmanian Passage
• Weddell Sea

Islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

• South Sandwich Islands

Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean

• Abrolhos Archipelago
• Ascension Island
• Aurora Islands
• Bouvet Island
• Bushrod Island
• Fernando de Noronha
• Ilhas Cagarras
• Isla de Lobos
• Islands of Equatorial Guinea
• Islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• Islands of the Falkland Islands
• Penguin Island, Namibia
• Penguin Islands
• Pepys Island
• Providence Island, Liberia
• Rocas Atoll
• Saint Helena
• Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
• Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago
• Saxemberg Island
• Seal Island, Namibia
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• South Sandwich Islands
• St. Matthew Island (phantom island)
• Thompson Island (South Atlantic)
• Tigres Island
• Trindade and Martim Vaz

Volcanic arc islands

• Aeolian Islands
• Aleutian Islands
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Bonin Islands
• Greater Sunda Islands
• Indonesia
• Insular Islands
• Intermontane Islands
• Izu Islands
• Japanese archipelago
• Kermadec Islands
• Kuril Islands
• Lesser Antilles
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Mariana Islands
• Mascarene Islands
• Mentawai Islands Regency
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Solomon Islands (archipelago)
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• South Sandwich Islands
• Sunda Islands

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sandwich_Islands