Gregory Island (Antarctica)
| Gregory Island | ||
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.2 km | |
| width | 800 m | |
| surface | 70 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 100 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Gregory Island is a small island in the Ross Sea . It lies just a few hundred meters from the edge of the Evans Piedmont Glacier on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land between Cape Archer in the north and Cape Ross in the south.
geography
The ice-free island is about 1.2 kilometers long, 800 meters wide and up to 100 meters high. Their area is 70 hectares.
fauna
There is a breeding colony of the Antarctic skua ( Catharacta maccormicki ) on Gregory Island . In 1983 119 pairs were counted. There was no newer information until 2015. BirdLife International designates the entire island as an Important Bird Area (AQ180).
history
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered them. Scott first named it after the Scottish geologist John Walter Gregory as Gregory Point , because he thought it was a headland . It was not until Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1911–1913) that the mistake was recognized and the name was adapted accordingly.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gregory Island (AQ180) , datasheet on the BirdLife International website, accessed July 23, 2018.
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 662 (English)