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Deception Island map with the topography and the location of the stations and protected zones. Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano.
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This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Ile_de_la_Deception.svg licensed with Cc-by-3.0, GFDL . 2010-06-19T09:08:35Z Treehill 820x763 (464885 Bytes) carrés noirs (tentative)
Location of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands. Deception Island map with topography and location of stations and protected zones. Neptune's Bellows is a channel on the southeast side of Deception Island forming the entrance to Port Foster, in the South Shetland Islands.
Deception Island map with topography and location of stations and protected zones. The harbour entrance named Neptune's Bellows is at bottom right. The centre of Deception Island is a caldera, formed by a gigantic volcanic eruption and later flooded. This has created the 10 by 7 km (6.2 by 4.3 mi) basin-like harbour of Port Foster.
Sail Rock is the remaining uppermost part of a submerged volcanic edifice lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) southwest of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is 20 m long in southwest-northeast direction, 12 m wide and 30 m high.
Location of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands. Telefon Bay. Telefon Bay is a small bay on the north-west coast of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It is surmounted by Telefon Ridge. The name appears on the chart of the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10.
Whalers Bay is a small bay entered between Fildes Point and Penfold Point at the east side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The bay was so named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Charcot, because of its use at that time by whalers.