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Bristol Island

Bristol Island
Bristol Island

Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by ice cliffs and largely covered with ice. It features both the oldest rocks of this archipelago and an active volcano that last erupted in 2016.

Also on this shelf

Imperial County, California.

Geilston Bay fossil site.

See also

Uncatalogued shelf

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Depth 52
Shelf 69abc3eafef4f1
25,934 catalogued holdings
3 ways on