Candlemas Islands

The Candlemasinseln (English Candlemas Islands ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean. The group in the north of the South Sandwich Islands consists only of two small uninhabited islands and Iceland Candlemas and Vindication Iceland.

In part, the two islands are geographically assigned to Traversayinseln, a 50 km further north island group. The Candlemasinseln were, however, already discovered in 1775 by James Cook, the three Trayersayinseln However, only about 45 years later.