Cardigan Island
| Cardigan Island Ynys Aberteifi |
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| Waters | Irish Sea | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 8 ′ N , 4 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Cardigan Island ( Ynys Aberteifi in Welsh ) is a small, uninhabited island north of Cardigan , in Ceredigion , south-west Wales . The island's rocks rise to 52 m (171 ft) above sea level . The island has an area of 38 acres (15.38 hectares).
geography
The island lies at the exit of the estuary of the River Teifi in the south of Cardigan Bay . Only a few meters separate the island from the headland of Gwbert . It has a roughly crescent shape with the points to the southwest and northeast. It belongs to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales .
nature
A colony of gray seals lives on the island . Puffins (Welsh parrots) and Atlantic shearwaters also originally nested on the island. In 1924, the writer Ronald Lockley estimated the colony at 25 to 30 couples. In 1934, however, the Herefordshire liner crashed on the island and rats came ashore. They ate the eggs and nestlings and over the course of a few years they wiped out the bird population.
Today, the island serves as a breeding site for auks (guillemots), razorbills (razorbills), cormorants , shags (shags), fulmars (fulmars) and various species of gulls. Bottlenose dolphins and seals often come into the surrounding waters.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales: 50 years - Cardigan Island. 17th October 2017.
- ^ A history of Cardigan Island. walesonline.co.uk.