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One of the names of the volcano refers to the suffocating fumes experienced on the island; volcanic fumes spew from the mountain and to this is added the stench of
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The volcano erupted in March 2016; by July, between one third and one half of the island was covered in ash, putting the penguin colonies at risk.
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National Geographic - Erupting Volcano May Have Destroyed Huge Penguin Colony
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Erupting volcanos are threatening one of the world's largest penguin colonies
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Volcano on Zavodovski Island in the British South Sandwich Islands
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reaching to 550 metres (1,800 ft), forming the summit of
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Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Elevation
Coordinates
56°18′S 27°34′W / 56.300°S 27.567°W / -56.300; -27.567
Mount Asphyxia is located in Atlantic Ocean
Zavodovski Island
South Sandwich Islands
United Kingdom
Mountain type
Stratovolcano
Last eruption
volcanic cone
Zavodovski Island
South Sandwich Islands
penguin
guano
List of volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands
Google Earth
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Global Volcanism Program
Smithsonian Institution
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Erupting volcanos are threatening one of the world's largest penguin colonies
"Stench Point"
"Penguins on world's smelliest island in danger as volcano erupts, covering them in ash"
National Geographic - Erupting Volcano May Have Destroyed Huge Penguin Colony

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