Discovery reports (1929) Discovery reports discoveryreports31932inst Year: 1929 DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLANDS: THE CANDLEMAS GROUP 167 \trand- he visited the south-western coast. On the course taken he would not have had many chances of sighting the second island and he notes that the weather was foggy on both days. Filchner visited the group in very bad weather and his account seems to be largely based on Larsen's notes and erroneous sketch-plan. It is clear, however, that he saw both islands. When he states that the circumference is about 33 km. (18 miles), he is no doubt taking both together
Discovery reports (1929) Discovery reports discoveryreports31932inst Year: 1929 DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLANDS: THE CANDLEMAS GROUP 167 \trand- he visited the south-western coast. On the course taken he would not have had many chances of sighting the second island and he notes that the weather was foggy on both days. Filchner visited the group in very bad weather and his account seems to be largely based on Larsen's notes and erroneous sketch-plan. It is clear, however, that he saw both islands. When he states that the circumference is about 33 km. (18 miles), he is no doubt taking both together; for the larger island is about 3 miles long by i mile broad, and the smaller about i mile long by | mile broad, the circumference of the two being some 14 miles. His sketch, moreover (p. 117), shows both, the snow summits and vol- canic crater of the larger island, with the peaks of the smaller seen across the intervening low-lying land. After our survey was completed we learnt at South Georgia that Capt. Hansen, when he visited the South Sandwich Is. in 1927 (see p. 142), had also reported the presence of two islands in the Candle- mas Group. Cook called the islands Candlemas Islands, after the day on which they were discovered, but we think it will be convenient to retain this name only for the larger of the two, giving a separate name to the other. And since the re-discovery of the smaller island has so strikingly vindicated the truth of Cook's original description, we suggest that it should be called Vindication Island. As will be seen from the chart there are a number of outlying rocks round the islands, and a dangerous reef, on which stands the rock that Cook reported, extends from Vindication Island half-way across Nelson Strait. The strait is however navigable, probably with at least 10 fathoms,- and there is deep water inside Santa Rock, which lies some 2 miles north of Vindication Island. To the west of this island soundings are very uneven, and on the south side of
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