Ainley Peak is a prominent
peak, high, located southwest of
Post Office Hill Post Office Hill () is a prominent hill in Antarctica, 430 m, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) northwest of The Knoll and overlooking the Adelie penguin rookery of Cape Crozier, Ross Island. Mapped and so named by the New Zealand Geological Sur ...
in east
Ross Island
Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound. Ross Island lies within the boundaries of Ross Dependency, an area of Antarctica claimed by New ...
. Named after David G. Ainley,
Point Reyes Bird Observatory
Point Blue Conservation Science, founded as and formerly named the Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO), is a California-based wildlife conservation and research non-profit organization.
Overview
Point Blue was founded in 1965 to study bird migra ...
,
Stinson Beach, California, a
United States Antarctic Program ornithologist who studied
penguin
Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...
and
skua populations at
Cape Crozier and
McMurdo Sound in six seasons, 1969–70 to 1983–84.
References
Mountains of Ross Island
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