Antarctica, Southern Ocean, archipelago of South Shetland Islands, Deception Island, formidable subduction volcano still active, its 12 km diameter caldera peaking at 576 m collapsed, submerged by the Southern Ocean which found its point entrance through the Forges of Neptune (or literally from the English “Soufflet de Neptune”), a narrow pass 230 m wide

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