Candlemas Island

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Location of Candlemas Island
Location of Candlemas Island
South Sandwich Islands
South Sandwich Islands

Coordinates: 57°05′S, 26°39′W

Candlemas Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It lies about two miles from Vindication Island, separated by the Nelson Channel.

On the northwest flank of the island is an active stratovolcano, 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 1,804 feet (550 m).

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.



UK South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands SGSSI
South Georgia
South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia Islands: Annenkov Island • Bird Island • Clerke Rocks • Cooper Island • Grass Island • Pickersgill Islands • Shag Rocks • South Georgia • Willis Islands


South Sandwich Islands: Bellingshausen • Bristol • Candlemas • Cook • Leskov • Montagu • Saunders • Thule • Vindication • Visokoi • Zavodovski
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