Deception Island, part of the South Shetland Islands, boasts what could potentially be the straightest line in nature. The island is an active volcano's caldera and features a large, unusually ...

Currently, only two of the Antarctic volcanoes are officially classified as active: the horseshoe-shaped Deception Island – which is part of the South Shetland Islands – and Mount Erebus.

The 30m resolution survey showed for the first time that the South Sandwich Islands are the emergent tips of huge volcanoes that rise from seafloor about 3 kilometres deep. Scattered among these ...

She was making for the sunken volcano on Deception Island after helping British Antarctic Survey scientists conduct geological work around Cape Melville in the South Shetland Islands – 500 miles ...