Candlemas Island

Candlemas Island

South Sandwich Islands
Geography
Coordinates	57°05′S 26°39′W / 57.083°S 26.650°W / -57.083; -26.650Coordinates: 57°05′S 26°39′W / 57.083°S 26.650°W / -57.083; -26.650
Highest elevation	550 m (1800 ft)
Highest point	Mount Andromeda
Administration
United Kingdom
Demographics
Population	Uninhabtited

Candlemas Island (Spanish: Isla Candelaria) is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) 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 550 metres (1,804 ft).

The island's southeast point is called Shrove Point (

57°4′S 26°39′W / 57.067°S 26.650°W / -57.067; -26.650). It was named by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II because they charted it on Shrove Tuesday, March 4, 1930.^[1] Clapmatch Point forms the southwest point of the island.^[2]

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.

See also[]

• Breakbones Plateau
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands
• Tomblin Rock

References[]

• LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W., eds. (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union. p. 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.
• "Candlemas Island". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
• volcano.und.edu