Ardery Island
| Ardery Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 22 '15 " S , 110 ° 27' 10" E | |
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| length | 1.2 km | |
| width | 800 m | |
| Highest elevation | 117 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Ardery Island (or Ardery Island ) is an island in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland .
geography
The island is 2 km west of Odbert Island . In the south it is separated from Holl , Werlein , O'Connor and Ford islands by the Hiegel Passage . The Cronk Islands are 3.5 km north .
The Ardery Island is a steep, not glaciated, east-west 1.2 km long island, which is up to 117 m high.
climate
The climate on Ardery Island is roughly the same as that of Casey Station 12 km to the north on the Bailey Peninsula . The mean temperatures between 1957 and 1983 were 0.3 ° C in the warmest and −14.9 ° C in the coldest month. The average annual temperature was −9.3 ° C. The annual rainfall was 195 mm. Hurricane gusts occurred on an average of 96 days.
Flora and fauna
The flora of Ardery Island consists of some species of lichens , mosses and algae .
An invertebrate only are ectoparasites of birds known. The Ardery Island is the type site for the Antarctic flea .
The island has several colonies of sea birds . In particular here of the breed Antarktiksturmvogel , the Cape Petrel , the Snow Petrel , the southern fulmar , the Wilson's Storm Petrel and the South Polar Skua . Ardery Island is the only place where both subspecies of the snow petrel ( P. n. Nivea and P. n. Confusa ) have been observed together.
natural reserve
Primarily to protect the four petrel species was from Ardery- and Odbert Island, the specially protected area of Antarctica ASPA-103 under Annex V (protection and management of areas) of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty formed. The area is also designated as an Important Bird Area (AQ145) by BirdLife International .
history
It was first mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in 1947 and 1948 during Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them after Edward Rice Ardery (1920–2006), a member of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Operation Windmill, who between 1947 and 1948 was involved in setting up astronomical observation stations between the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Coast and the Budd coast .
Web links
- Ardery Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ardery Island on geographic.org (English)
- Topographic map 1: 6,000
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ardery Island and Odbert Island, Budd Coast, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica (PDF; 1.37 MB), Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 103, accessed on June 23, 2016
- ↑ a b Ardery Island / Odbert Island (AQ145) , data sheet on the BirdLife International website, accessed on July 23, 2018 (English).