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[Ogle Earth] In the briefest of inspections of the new imagery aided by the KML outline file, I zoomed in on South Sandwich's Montagu Island, wondering why that remote place merited a now highly conspicuous close-up. A click on the accompanying Wikipedia icon answered my question adroitly: The island is volcanically active, providing "some of the first scientific observations of volcanic eruptions taking place underneath an ice sheet." Sure enough:
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