Rookery Islands
The Rookery Islands are a group of rocks and small islands in western Holme Bay, north of the David and Masson Ranges, on the Mawson Coast of Mac.Robertson Land in East Antarctica.[1] The largest in the group are Giganteus Island in the north-west, 600 m long by 400 m wide, and Rookery Island in the south, 1 km long and 250 m wide. The islands are rocky and of low relief, rising to heights of 60 m on Rookery Island, 25 m on Giganteus Island, and ranging from 10 – 30 m on the smaller islands. The nearest permanent research station is Australia's Mawson, some 15 km to the east in Holme Bay.[2]
Environment
The group contains breeding colonies of Adélie penguins, Cape petrels, snow petrels, southern giant petrels (which breed nowhere else in the region), Wilson's storm petrels and Antarctic skuas. The islands are protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.102.[1] The 89 ha site has also been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International, principally because of the Adélie Penguin colony.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "Rookery Islands, Holme Bay, Mac.Robertson Land" (PDF). Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 102: Measure 2, Annex B. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2005. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
- ^ a b "Rookery Islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
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- Scullin Monolith
- Taylor Rookery
- Admiralty Bay
- Ardley Island
- Byers Peninsula
- Cape Shirreff
- Collins Point
- Coppermine Peninsula
- Crater Lake
- Deception Island
- Discovery Bay
- Fildes Peninsula
- Harmony Point
- Kroner Lake
- Lions Rump
- Mount Pond
- Narębski Point
- Pendulum Cove
- Port Foster
- Potter Peninsula
- Ronald Hill
- San Telmo Island
- South East Point
- Stonethrow Ridge
- Suffield Point
- Telefon Bay
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