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”, “Decepción, isla”, “Deceptioneiland”, “Deceptioninsel”, “Ile de la Deception”, “Illa Deception”, “Pendulum Cove”, “Остров Десепшен”, “Остров Тейля”, and “Тейля”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Relict Lake and Crimson Hill.
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”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ديسبشن”
- Armenian: “Խաբեության կղզի”
- Azerbaijani: “Desepşen”
- Basque: “Deception uhartea”
- Bulgarian: “Дисепшън”
- Catalan: “illa Decepció”
- Catalan: “Illa Decepció”
- Cebuano: “Decepción”
- Chinese: “迪塞普申岛”
- Czech: “Deception Island”
- Dutch: “Deception”
- Esperanto: “Deception”
- French: “île de la Déception”
- French: “Île de la Déception”
- Galician: “Illa Decepción”
- German: “Deception Island”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Yaudara”
- Hebrew: “דספשן”
- Hindi: “धोखे का द्वीप”
- Italian: “isola Deception”
- Italian: “Isola Deception”
- Japanese: “デセプション島”
- Korean: “디셉션섬”
- Latvian: “Disepšena”
- Macedonian: “Дисепшен”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deceptionøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deceptionøya”
- Norwegian: “Deceptionøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isla Decepcion”
- Polish: “Deception Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Decepção”
- Russian: “Десепшен”
- Serbian: “Дисепшен”
- Serbian: “Острво Дисепшен”
- Slovak: “Deception Island”
- Spanish: “Decepción, Isla”
- Spanish: “Isla Decepción”
- Swedish: “Deception Island”
- Thai: “เกาะดีเซปชัน”
- Turkish: “Deception Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Десепшен”
- Urdu: “ڈیسیپشن آئی لینڈ”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Whaler’s Bay dormitory and Station P.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: ASPA-140G Pendulum Cove and ASPA-140K Ronald Hill to Kroner Lake.
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