Talk:Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands

Nattriss Point was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 28 October 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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A fact from Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 September 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Saunders Island has a lava lake and is populated by penguins?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands.

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Clarification needed - DI personnel[edit]

This article says that the island was charted by "DI personnel on the Discovery II". Nowhere can I find what "DI" means in this context. Any ideas? Matt 18:37, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

DI = Discovery Investigations. Jan1naD ^{(talk • contrib)} 13:48, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 22:21, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Saunders Island from space

... that Saunders Island (pictured) has a lava lake and is populated by penguins?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Te'omim Cave

5x expanded by Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk). Self-nominated at 10:48, 14 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:37, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work. I noticed two issues, though: (1) the QPQ has not yet been completed, and (2) the image used in the nomination is not present in the article. If these two issues are fixed this can be approved. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:57, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

QPQ added and image also added. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 16:19, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:25, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Subduction trench location[edit]

In this article, it says that the Atlantic Plate is subducting under the western side of the Sandwich Plate. The South Sandwich Plate article shows the subduction to the east. Kelseymh (talk) 02:33, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:11, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]