Key facts
- Location
- Antarctica
- Archipelago
- South Shetland Islands
- Area
- 79 km (31 sq mi)
- Length
- 12 km (7.5 mi)
- Width
- 12 km (7.5 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 542 m (1778 ft)
- Highest point
- Mount Pond
- Construction
- concrete (foundation), fiberglass (tower)
- Height
- 4.5 m (15 ft)
- Shape
- cylinder
- Markings
- Stripe (white, orange, horizontal orientation)
- Power source
- solar power
- Focal height
- 114 m (374 ft)
- Range
- 5 nmi (9.3 km; 5.8 mi)
- Characteristic
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via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Deception Island map with the topography and the location of the stations and protected zones
Deception Island is an active volcanic island in the South Shetland Islands, close to the Antarctic Peninsula. It is the exposed part of a flooded volcanic caldera, with Port Foster forming a large natural harbour inside the island. The island's volcano seriously damaged local scientific stations during eruptions in 1967 and 1969, and its last major eruption occurred in 1970. The island formerly had a whaling station and is now a major Antarctic visitor site. Two research stations, Argentina's Deception Station and Spain's Gabriel de Castilla Base, operate during the summer season.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Deception Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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