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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)
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.
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.
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.
Baily Head Bail Head forms the easternmost part of Deception Island Baily Head is a prominent headland, 160 m high, forming the easternmost extremity of Deception Island , in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica .
The island experienced severe volcanic activity in 1967, 1969, and 1970. Gabriel de Castilla Base , a Spanish research station, was constructed on Deception Island in the late 1980s. Deception Island has also been home to scientific stations run by Argentina, Chile, Spain, and the United Kingdom.