- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently posted a birds-eyeview picture of Deception island on its Instagram handle.
- Deception Island is part of a line of islands called the South Shetland Islands, lying
northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula. - It is an active volcano.
- It was formed by a massive volcanic eruption, which caused the central part of the
volcano to collapse and allowed seawater to flood the center, or caldera. - It has a unique landscape of barren volcanic slopes, steaming beaches, and ash-layered
glaciers that form a distinctive horseshoe-shaped opening to the sea through a narrow
channel at Neptune’s Bellows. - The Island surrounds Port Foster, one of the safest harbours in the Antarctic.
- It is one of the only places in the world where vessels can sail directly into the centre of
a restless volcano. - It’s one of two active volcanoes around Antarctica, and it has erupted more than twenty
times since the 19th century. - Three volcanic eruptions took place on the island between 1967 – 1970, destroying the
Chilean and the British stations. - At present, Argentina and Spain maintain summer scientific stations there.
