A Narrative of Five Youth from the Sandwich Islands, Now Rece... by American Board of Commissio...5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The largest, Montagu, is only about 7 miles wide. Eventually he discovered a remote chain of small, ice-covered islands with jagged peaks and calving glaciers that he named "Sandwich Land." The chain, now called the South Sandwich Islands, consists of 11 small islands, now named Zavodovski, Visokoi, Leskov, Candlemas, Vindication, Saunders, Montagu, Bristol, Cook, Thule and Bellinghausen. He encountered rough seas, bitterly cold weather, and dangerous icebergs. The island is surrounded by sea ice.Īfter exploring and claiming land in the South Pacific for Britain during his second of three voyages, Cook set out east from the Pacific in 1775 to the South Atlantic-hugging the southern tip of South America-to locate the fabled Terra Australis, or Southern Continent. A vent in the center of the island is erupting ash, which is drifting to the northeast, as well as a narrow lava flow (red) which has cut north through the island's ice cover to reach the ocean. This satellite image shows Montagu Island, in the remote South Sandwich Islands, erupting in September 2005. ![]()
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