Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands
British island in the southern Atlantic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saunders Island is a crescent-shaped island 8.5 by 5 kilometres (5.3 mi × 3.1 mi) long, lying between Candlemas Island and Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a volcanic island composed of an active stratovolcano, 990-metre (3,248 ft) Mount Michael, and a cluster of pyroclastic cones on the southeastern side. Mount Michael has a lava lake in its summit crater, which is fumarolically active, and there is widespread evidence of recent eruptions across the island.
Geography | |
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Coordinates | 57.80°S 26.49°W / -57.80; -26.49[1] |
Archipelago | South Sandwich Islands |
Highest elevation | 990 m (3250 ft) |
Highest point | Mount Michael |
Administration | |
United Kingdom | |
Demographics | |
Population | Uninhabited |
The island is used as a breeding ground by many bird species, including penguins, but is barren of vegetation apart from lichens and some moss-covered patches. Most of the island is covered in ice.