Candlemas Island
Candlemas Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands 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.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of 266 metres (873 feet)
- …is also known as “Candlemis Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Perseus and Tomblin Rock.
Tomblin Rock
Tomblin Rock is an isolated rock 0.6 nautical miles…Candlemas Island
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-57.08217° or 57° 4′ 56″ south
Longitude
-26.67309° or 26° 40′ 23″ west
Open location code
39JMW89G+4Q
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Candlemas Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Illa Candlemas”
- Cebuano: “Candlemas Island”
- Chinese: “坎德爾默斯島”
- Croatian: “Candlemas (otok)”
- Croatian: “Candlemas”
- Dutch: “Candlemas Island”
- Esperanto: “Candlemas-insulo”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Candlemas”
- French: “Ile Candlemas”
- French: “île Candlemas”
- French: “Île Candlemas”
- French: “île de la Chandeleur”
- French: “Îles Candlemas”
- German: “Candlemas Island”
- Italian: “Isola Candlemas”
- Japanese: “キャンドルマス島”
- Korean: “캔들마스 아일랜드”
- Latvian: “Kendlmasa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Candlemas Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Candlemas Island”
- Norwegian: “Candlemas Island”
- Norwegian: “Candlemasøya”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Candelmæssanīeg”
- Portuguese: “Ilha candelária”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Candelária”
- Russian: “Кандлмас”
- Spanish: “Candelaria (Sandwich del Sur)”
- Spanish: “Isla Candelaria”
- Spanish: “Isla Candlemas”
- Swedish: “Candlemas Island”
- Turkish: “Candlemas Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Кендлмас”
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Highlights include Breakbones Plateau and Mount Andromeda.
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