Deception Island -- photograph

• Main Author: Seale, Linda N.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Hot springs; First flights; Drowned caldera; Flying in Antarctica; Deception Island; Sir Hubert Wilkins; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Wilkins; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/2fa21877-9504-42e8-8c6b-6f4ddea4e343; https://doi.org/10.7939/R3SB3X56W

View of the area at Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, where Sir Hubert Wilkins made the first flight in Antarctica in 1928. Deception Island is a drowned caldera (volcanic crater) covered in black volcanic sand from the last eruption in 1970. The heat remaining in the sand warms the wat...