Eden Rocks
The Eden Rocks are two rocks lying 1.5 km off the east coast of Dundee Island, at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula. A small island was reported there on 30 December 1842 by Captain James Clark Ross of the Royal Navy, who named it "Eden Island" for Captain Charles Eden. Following a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953, it was reported that the feature consists of two rocky islets rising to about 90 m in height and lying close together.[1]
Important Bird Area
[edit]An 73 ha site, comprising the rocks and the intervening sea, has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 45,000 pairs of Adélie penguins.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Eden Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ^ "Eden Rocks". BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas. BirdLife International. 2012. Archived from the original on 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Eden Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
63°29′S 55°40′W / 63.483°S 55.667°W
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