Vindication Island

Vindication Island (Spanish: Isla Vindicación) is a small uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands. It lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) from Candlemas Island, separated by the Nelson Channel. The island is mostly ice free.

Vindication Island

NASA Terra image of Vindication Island
Location of Vindication Island
Geography
Coordinates	57°06′S 26°47′W
Area	3 km^2 (1.2 sq mi)
Length	2.1 km (1.3 mi)
Width	1.6 km (0.99 mi)
Highest elevation	430 m (1,410 ft)
Highest point	Quadrant Peak
Administration
United Kingdom
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Geography

This small island is part of the Candlemas Islands subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands. The island's highest point is Quadrant Peak at 430 m (1,411 ft), while the south-easternmost cape is Chinstrap Point. Its southwesternmost point is Knob Point, charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, and probably so named because a conspicuous height of land overlooks the point.[1]

Vindication Island is the eroded remains of a former volcanic complex.[2]

Unlike neighboring Candlemas Island, where there is volcanic activity, the volcano on Vindication has shown no sign of activity for over 10,000 years.[3]

Buddha Rock lies 0.3 nautical miles (0.6 km) west of Vindication Island.

South Sandwich Islands

See also

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

References

1. "Knob Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
2. The South Sandwich Islands: Petrology of the Volcanic Rocks, P. E. Baker, Scientific Report of the British Antarctic Survey, Nr 93, Cambridge 1978, p. 7
3. 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.

• volcano.und.edu