http://jfmoyen.free.fr/spip.php?article235

congratulations for finding these islands, and sorry for the problems with your comments. Obviously, my spamfilter has put you in the spam queue. (When I began blogging, I didn’t even think that such a minor blog like mine would need a spam filter anyway.)

Yes, showing a volcanic island with snow on it was rather easy, but I had a bit of a problem coming up with something more difficult…

Thanks for showing your “alternative” approach to finding this location. I’m looking forward to sharpening my database skills with your WoGE.

That’s Candlemas & Vindication Islands, in the S. Sandwich. Both are volcanoes, Candlemas had an historical activity in ca. 1910. Apparently the clouds we see are geysers, not a “proper” eruption.

Amusingly, these two island are a high resolution zone in Google Earth in the midst of a mostly low-res region; in Google maps, Candlemas is low resolution too.

I must admit I’ve been cheating here. An active (or recent) volcano in (obviously) high latitudes is something that must be referenced in databases; for instance, here : http://www.geocodezip.com/v2_activeVolcanos.asp

Actually this specific volcano was not active and therefore is not in the database, but Michael, to the immediate South, is in the base.

Details on Candlemas can be found at http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1900-10=

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I must admit I cheated a little bit — but showing an active volcano so obviously at high latitudes was calling for it. Anyway : http://www.geocodezip.com/v2_activeVolcanos.asp , then selct by regions to see the active volca at high latitude. I first tried the Aleoutians before moving to Antarctica.

Geological description at http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1900-10=

It appears that the smoke is probably just geyser activity.