Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Vindication Island

Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes in the Southern Ocean that was discovered in 1775 by James Cook.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Quadrant Peak and Castor Rock.

Peak
is a peak forming the summit of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. The peak forms a narrow ridge above the uniform slopes of the original volcanic cone, and is a quadrant of what was probably once a circular mass cone.

Islet
is the northern of a pair of large off-lying rocks south of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. This rock, with its neighbor , was named "Castor and Pollux", after the Dioscuri of Greek mythology, during the survey of these islands from RRS Discovery II in 1930.

Islet
is the southern of a pair of large off-lying rocks south of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. This rock, with its neighbour , was named "Castor and Pollux" during the survey of these islands from RRS Discovery II in 1930.

Vindication Island

Latitude
-57.11717° or 57° 7′ 2″ south
Longitude
-26.81512° or 26° 48′ 54″ west
Open location code
39JMV5MM+4X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 229914265
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3426238
Wiki­data ID
Q667663
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Satellite Map

Discover Vindication Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Swedish—“Vindication Island” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Enez Vindication”
  • Catalan: “Illa Vindication”
  • Cebuano: “Vindication Island”
  • Chinese: “溫德凱申島”
  • Dutch: “Vindication Island”
  • French: “île Vindication”
  • French: “Île Vindication”
  • German: “Vindication Island”
  • Italian: “Isola di Vindication”
  • Japanese: “ビンディケーション島”
  • Latvian: “Vindikeišena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vindication Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vindication Island”
  • Norwegian: “Vindication Island”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Vindicationīeg”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Vindicação”
  • Spanish: “Isla Vindicacion”
  • Spanish: “Isla Vindicación”
  • Swedish: “Vindication Island”

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Highlights include Roca Perfil and Trousers Rock.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vindication Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.