Deception Island
Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbour, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano.
- Type: Island
- Description: Antarctic island
- Also known as: “Decepcion, isla” and “Decepción, isla”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Relict Lake and Crimson Hill.
Relict Lake
Lake
Relict Lake is a small lake lying southeast of Pendulum Cove on Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1957 because when Lieutenant E.N.
Crimson Hill
Peak
Crimson Hill is a prominent, ice-free hill, 95 metres high, on the south side of Pendulum Cove, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was so named in 1829 by the British expedition under Foster, because there was a prominent stratum of brickstone in the hill.
Ronald Hill
Peak
Ronald Hill is a rocky, ice-free hill, 105 m in height, standing north of Kroner Lake on Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aguirre Cerda Research Station.
Aguirre Cerda Research Station
Locality
Photo: Jorval, Public domain.Deception Island
- Categories: volcanic island, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.95794° or 62° 57′ 29″ south
Longitude
-60.62025° or 60° 37′ 13″ west
Open location code
379X29RH+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Deception Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Deception-eiland”
- Afrikaans: “Deceptioneiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ديسبشن”
- Armenian: “Խաբեության կղզի”
- Azerbaijani: “Desepşen”
- Basque: “Deception uhartea”
- Bulgarian: “Дисепшън”
- Catalan: “illa Decepció”
- Catalan: “Illa Decepció”
- Catalan: “Illa Decepción”
- Catalan: “Illa Deception”
- Cebuano: “Decepción”
- Chinese: “迪塞普申岛”
- Czech: “Deception Island”
- Dutch: “Decepción”
- Dutch: “Deception”
- Esperanto: “Deception”
- French: “Ile de la Deception”
- French: “île de la Déception”
- French: “Île de la Déception”
- Galician: “Illa Decepción”
- German: “Deception Island”
- German: “Deceptioninsel”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Yaudara”
- Hebrew: “דספשן”
- Hindi: “धोखे का द्वीप”
- Italian: “Deception Island”
- Italian: “isola Deception”
- Italian: “Isola Deception”
- Japanese: “デセプション島”
- Korean: “디셉션섬”
- Latvian: “Disepšena”
- Macedonian: “Дисепшен”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deception Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deceptionøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deception Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deceptionøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pendulum Cove”
- Norwegian: “Deceptionøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isla Decepcion”
- Polish: “Deception Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Decepção”
- Russian: “Десепшен”
- Russian: “Остров Десепшен”
- Russian: “Остров Тейля”
- Russian: “Тейля”
- Serbian: “Дисепшен”
- Serbian: “Острво Дисепшен”
- Slovak: “Deception Island”
- Spanish: “Decepción, Isla”
- Spanish: “Isla Decepcion”
- Spanish: “Isla Decepción”
- Swedish: “Decepción”
- Swedish: “Deception Island”
- Thai: “เกาะดีเซปชัน”
- Turkish: “Deception Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Десепшен”
- Urdu: “ڈیسیپشن آئی لینڈ”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Whaler’s Bay dormitory and Station P.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include ASPA-140G Pendulum Cove and ASPA-140K Ronald Hill to Kroner Lake.
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