Candlemas Island
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candlemas-island-188-7307829
title:
Candlemas Island
text:
Candlemas Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes in the Southern Ocean that was discovered in 1775 by James Cook. The volcanism is caused by the subduction of the South American Plate beneath the Sandwich Plate. The island is remote and rarely visited due to the often hostile weather conditions, but is populated by penguins and seabirds, which
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemas_Island
date created:
2004-09-07T16:40:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T00:03:56Z
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13
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