Hello and welcome to Weird Wild World, a weekly series that takes a look at the power of nature.

From natural disasters to rare and strange phenomena and to animals will take a look at the wonder and

weirdness of our planet. I'm the aluminati and today we're going to be talking

about Deception Island in Antarctica.

Deception Island is not too far from the southernmost tip of South America, just for reference.

It's not to say that it's within swimming distance or anything, but that's about the closest point I can compare it to for any of you that aren't exactly familiar with the Antarctic landscape.

Anyway, with such a cool name like Deception Island, I knew that this island was going to have a unique history and I wanted to dive into it and see what was going on there. So let's take a look at Deception Island. Deception Island, according to one source, has fire and ice in its history and in the present day.

Mountainous, half covered by glaciers and mostly covered with black volcanic ash, deception is an active volcano.

The island is a submerged caldera, a circle of craggy hills around an almost enclosed

seawater lagoon known as Port Foster.

Its horseshoe shape formed

when a volcanic eruption 10,000 years ago

blew off the top of the mountain

and allowed sea water to flood the center, or Caldera. This volcano is quiet but not dead. The

island is classified as a restless Caldera with significant volcanic risk that

could erupt at any time. A Caldera, for those of you that don't know, is a large depression that

forms when a volcano erupts and collapses. During an eruption, magma from the magma chamber

is expelled, usually with some force. When the magma chamber is expelled usually with some force.

When the magma chamber is empty,

the sides and top of the volcano collapse inward,

making a caldera.

At least, that's one of the most common simplified ways this works.

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