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Zavodovski Island

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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. [1]

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  1. 97 relations: Algae, Ammonia, Antarctic fur seal, Antarctic tern, Arthropod, Atlantic Ocean, Augite, Basalt, Bay, Beacon, Bellingshausen Island, Bird colony, Black-bellied storm petrel, Blue-eyed shag, Bristol Island, British Antarctic Survey, British Overseas Territories, Bryophyte, Candlemas Island, Cape petrel, Carl Anton Larsen, Chinstrap penguin, Coastal erosion, Columnar jointing, Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands, Cruise ship, Eruption column, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Fumarole, Gentoo penguin, Geographic Names Information System, Glacial period, Glacier, Headland, Holocene, Iceberg, Island arc, Jean Baptiste, marquis de Traversay, Kelp gull, Kemp Caldera, King penguin, Last Glacial Maximum, Lava, Leskov Island, Macaroni penguin, Marine protected area, Mid-ocean ridge, Mite, Montagu Island, Moss, ... Expand index (47 more) »

  2. Islands of the South Sandwich Islands
  3. Uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  4. Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  5. Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean

Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.

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Antarctic fur seal

The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae.

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Antarctic tern

The Antarctic tern (Sterna vittata) is a seabird in the family Laridae.

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Arthropod

Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.

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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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Augite

Augite, also known as Augurite, is a common rock-forming pyroxene mineral with formula.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Beacon

A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Bellingshausen Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Bird colony

A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.

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Black-bellied storm petrel

The black-bellied storm petrel (Fregetta tropica) is a species of seabird in the family Oceanitidae.

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Blue-eyed shag

Leucocarbo is a genus of birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae.

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Bristol Island

Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. Zavodovski Island and Bristol Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute.

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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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Bryophyte

Bryophytes are a group of land plants, sometimes treated as a taxonomic division, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses.

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Candlemas Island

Candlemas Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. Zavodovski Island and Candlemas Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cape petrel

The Cape petrel (Daption capense), also called the Cape pigeon, pintado petrel, or Cape fulmar, is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae.

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Carl Anton Larsen

Carl Anton Larsen (7 August 1860 – 8 December 1924) was a Norwegian-born whaler and Antarctic explorer who made important contributions to the exploration of Antarctica, the most significant being the first discovery of fossils for which he received the Back Grant from the Royal Geographical Society.

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Chinstrap penguin

The chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) is a species of penguin that inhabits a variety of islands and shores in the Southern Pacific and the Antarctic Oceans.

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Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.

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Columnar jointing

Columnar jointing is a geological structure where sets of intersecting closely spaced fractures, referred to as joints, result in the formation of a regular array of polygonal prisms, or columns.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cruise ship

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.

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Eruption column

An eruption column or eruption plume is a cloud of super-heated ash and tephra suspended in gases emitted during an explosive volcanic eruption.

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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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Fumarole

A fumarole (or fumerole) is a vent in the surface of the Earth or another rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids.

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Gentoo penguin

The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is a penguin species (or possibly a species complex) in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely related to the Adélie penguin (P. adeliae) and the chinstrap penguin (P. antarcticus).

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Glacial period

A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Headland

A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Iceberg

An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice more than long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.

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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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Jean Baptiste, marquis de Traversay

Jean Baptiste Prevost de Sansac, marquis de Traversay (24 July 1754 – 19 May 1831) was a naval officer of French creole origins who distinguished himself in the ranks of Royal French Navy during the American Revolutionary War.

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Kelp gull

The kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), also known as the Dominican gull, is a gull that breeds on coasts and islands through much of the Southern Hemisphere.

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Kemp Caldera

Kemp Caldera and Kemp Seamount form a submarine volcano south of the South Sandwich Islands, in a region where several seamounts are located.

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King penguin

The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin, smaller, but somewhat similar in appearance to the emperor penguin.

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Last Glacial Maximum

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Leskov Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Macaroni penguin

The macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Marine protected area

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are protected areas of the world's seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes.

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Mid-ocean ridge

A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics.

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Mite

Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods).

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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. Zavodovski Island and Montagu Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Moss

Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Mount Asphyxia are volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Olivine

The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the chemical formula.

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Parasitic cone

A parasitic cone (also adventive cone or satellite cone) is the cone-shaped accumulation of volcanic material not part of the central vent of a volcano.

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Penguin

Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.

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Phenocryst

Swiss side of the Mont Blanc massif, has large white phenocrysts of plagioclase (that have trapezoid shapes when cut through). 1 euro coin (diameter 2.3 cm) for scale. A phenocryst is an early forming, relatively large and usually conspicuous crystal distinctly larger than the grains of the rock groundmass of an igneous rock.

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Plagioclase

Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Protector Shoal are volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Pumice

Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of extremely vesicular rough-textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals.

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Pumice raft

A pumice raft is a floating raft of pumice created by some eruptions of submarine volcanoes or coastal subaerial volcanoes.

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Pyroxene

The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.

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Radiometric dating

Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed.

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Satellite imagery

Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands are islands of the South Sandwich Islands and uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Scotia Plate

The Scotia Plate is a minor tectonic plate on the edge of the South Atlantic and Southern oceans.

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Sea ice

Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.

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Seabird

Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.

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Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.

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Sector collapse

A sector collapse or lateral collapse is the structural failure and subsequent collapse of part of a volcano.

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Slump (geology)

A slump is a form of mass wasting that occurs when a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.

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Snow field

A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain.

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Snow petrel

The snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) is the only member of the genus Pagodroma. It is one of only three birds that have been seen at the Geographic South Pole, along with the Antarctic petrel and the south polar skua, which has the most southerly breeding sites of any bird, inland in Antarctica.

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South American Plate

The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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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.

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South Sandwich Islands

The South Sandwich Islands (Islas Sandwich del Sur) are a chain of uninhabited volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Southern fulmar

The southern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides) is a seabird of the Southern Hemisphere.

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Southern giant petrel

The southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Submarine eruption

Submarine eruptions are volcano eruptions which take place beneath the surface of water.

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Submarine volcano

Submarine volcanoes are underwater vents or fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Tephra

Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.

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Tholeiitic magma series

The tholeiitic magma series is one of two main magma series in subalkaline igneous rocks, the other being the calc-alkaline series.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Thule Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Traversay Islands are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Vindication Island

Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. Zavodovski Island and Vindication Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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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. Zavodovski Island and Visokoi Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Volcanic bomb

A volcanic bomb or lava bomb is a mass of partially molten rock (tephra) larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption.

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Volcanic crater

A volcanic crater is an approximately circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.

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Volcanic island

Geologically, a volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin.

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Weathering

Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.

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Whaler

A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.

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Wilson's storm petrel

Wilson's storm petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), also known as Wilson's petrel, is a small seabird of the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.

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See also

Islands of the South Sandwich Islands

Uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean

References

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

Also known as Acrid Point, Fume Point, Noxious Bluff, Pacific Point, Pungent Point, Punta Acre, Reek Point, Stench Point, Zavodovski.

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