O'Connor Island
| O'Connor Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.7 km | |
| width | 700 m | |
| Highest elevation | 80 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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O'Connor Island is a 1.7 km long island in the southern part of the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It lies between the islands of Holl Island and Ford Island . The rocky island is up to 80 m high.
O'Connor Island is designated as an Important Bird Area (AQ144) by BirdLife International together with Holl Island and the islands between the two such as Werlein Island . In January 2011, around 30,500 breeding pairs of the Adelie penguin were counted on all islands , which corresponds to a doubling of the population size within 21 years. In the Antarctic summer 2002/2003, 327 breeding pairs of the snow petrel were also counted on O'Connor Island. The Cape petrel and the Antarctic kua also breed here .
The island was first mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Operation Windmill (1947-1948). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1956 after Joseph J. O'Connor, member of the so-called Eastern Task Force in Operation Highjump, who also helped the crews of Operation Windmill to set up astronomical observation stations between the coast of Kaiser Wilhelm II. -Lands and the Budd Coast .
Web links
- O'Connor Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- O'Connor Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Holl Island / O'Connor Island (AQ144) , data sheet on the BirdLife International website, accessed on July 23, 2018 (English).