SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



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W. ; they are all high and covered with snow. Fifty 

 miles to the south lies Saunders Island in latitude 57° 

 51' S. and longitude 26° 24' W., attaining a circumference 

 of about eighteen miles, and appearing high and rocky. 



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Map of the South Sandwich Isles (after Dumont d'Urville). 



Both Cook and Bellingshausen describe this island as 

 not completely covered with snow, from which the latter 

 argued that it is probably affected by volcanic action. 



