Geology and Minerals

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

See also

• ▸Euchambersia
• ▸Ewald Weibel
• ▸Finedon

Uncatalogued shelf

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