Dion Islands
| Dion Islands | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 52 ′ S , 68 ° 43 ′ W | |
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The Dion Islands ( French Îles de Dion ) are a group of small islands and reef rocks in the northern Marguerite Bay off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 10 km southwest of Cape Alexandra on Adelaide Island .
The islands were discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . He named it after the French entrepreneur Albert de Dion (1856-1946), who had provided three snowmobiles and other equipment for the research trip .
The archipelago is one of the Important Bird Areas in Antarctica (IBA Ant002). It is the breeding area of the blue-eyed shark , the Adelie penguin , the spotted petrel , the Dominican gull and the sub-Antarctic skua . The emperor penguin breeding colony on Emperor Island is particularly noteworthy because it is only one of three known locations in Antarctica where this species of penguin breeds on land.
Web links
- Dion Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dion Islands on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Harris CM, Carr R., Lorenz K. and Jones S .: Important Bird Areas in Antarctica - Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands, South Orkney Islands. Prepared for BirdLife International and the Polar Regions Unit of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Environmental Research & Assessment Ltd., Cambridge, 2011, pp. 100-101 (English).