Moe Island

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Moe Island
Map of the southern Orkney Islands with Moe Island southwest of Signy Island (bottom center)
Map of the southern Orkney Islands with Moe Island southwest of Signy Island (bottom center)
Waters Weddell Sea
Archipelago South Orkney Islands
Geographical location 60 ° 44 ′ 8 ″  S , 45 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 60 ° 44 ′ 8 ″  S , 45 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  W
Moe Island (Antarctica)
Moe Island
length 1.5 km
width 1 km
Highest elevation Snipe Peak
226  m
Residents uninhabited

Moe Island is an island in the Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands .

geography

The irregularly shaped island is 1.5 km long and 1 km wide. They are separated from the southwestern end of Signy Island by the 310 m wide Fyr Channel . In the north and south-east the island rises steeply to the highest point, the Snipe Peak . Three rocky headlands extend to the northwest and delimit two bays, Landing Cove and Richardson Cove .

The nearest research station is the British Signy station , which is about 3 miles to the northeast.

environmental Protection

Moe Island and the rocky cliffs immediately in front of it form the specially protected area ( Antarctic Specially Protected Area ) No. 109 according to Appendix V (Protection and Management of Areas) of the Environmental Protection Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty . The aim of protection is to maintain the ecosystem of up to two meters thick turf mats and the colonies of chinstrap penguins , Kapsturmvögeln and pigeons storm birds . An increasing number of Antarctic fur seals populate the shores of Landing Cove .

Moe Island is designated as an Important Bird Area (AQ020) by BirdLife International .

history

The Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle mapped them between 1912 and 1913. He named them after Magnus Thoralf Joachim Moe (1878 – unknown), another whaling captain from the Norwegian Sandefjord , who operated at the same time as Sørlle in the waters around the Southern Orkney Islands.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty: Moe Island, South Orkney Islands (PDF; 346 kB), Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 109, 2012 (English)
  2. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1052 (English)
  3. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 599 (English)
  4. ↑ a b Datasheet Moe Island (IBA AQ020) at Birdlife International, accessed on July 22, 2018.