Cape Lookout (Elephant Island)
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 Map of Elephant Island with the Cape Lookout (below) |
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| Coordinates | 61 ° 17 ′ S , 55 ° 12 ′ W | |
| location | Elephant Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters | Loper Canal | |
Cape Lookout , also known as Cabo Fossatti and Cabo Vigía , is a 240 m high, towering cape at the southern end of the rocky and uninhabited Elephant Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean . It protrudes into the Loper Canal between Elephant Island and Gibbs Island .
designation
The name Cape Lookout is found for the first time on a map made in 1822 by the British captain and seal hunter George Powell (1794-1824) during an expedition to the area and is now in international use.
Bird sanctuary
An ice-free, 113 hectare coastal strip, which extends from the cape about 2 km to the west and rises to a height of over 250 m, is designated by the world umbrella organization of bird protection organizations BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA), as there is gather around 12,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins in a large breeding colony each year .
In addition to other Antarctic bird species such as petrels , albatrosses , Dominican gulls , white-faced sheaths and other penguin species , Antarctic fur seals and southern elephant seals come ashore at Cape Lookout.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1244
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 949
- ↑ BirdLife International (2013) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Cape Lookout, Elephant Island , accessed on February 5, 2013