Turner Island is an
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
in the
Donskiye Islands group lying north-west of
Bluff Island and west of
Breidnes Peninsula Breidnes Peninsula () is a rocky peninsula, long and wide, between Ellis Fjord and Langnes Fjord in the Vestfold Hills. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition
Lars is a common male name ...
,
Vestfold Hills
The Vestfold Hills are rounded, rocky, coastal hills, in extent, on the north side of Sorsdal Glacier on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. The hills are subdivided by three west-trending peninsulas bounded by n ...
, in
Prydz Bay
Prydz Bay is a deep embayment of Antarctica between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. The Bay is at the downstream end of a giant glacial drainage system that originates in the East Antarctic interior. The Lambert Glacie ...
,
Princess Elizabeth Land
Princess Elizabeth Land is the sector of Antarctica between longitude 73° east and Cape Penck (at 87°43' east). The sector is claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, although this claim is not widely recognized.
...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
.
Discovery and naming
The island was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the
Lars Christensen Expedition
Lars is a common male name in Scandinavian countries.
Origin
''Lars'' means "from the city of Laurentum". Lars is derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel".
A homonymous Etruscan name was bo ...
, 1936–37. It was remapped by ANARE (
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) (1957–58) and named for
P.B. Turner, a radio officer at
Davis Station
The Davis Station, commonly called Davis, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Davis is situated on the coast of Cooperation Sea in Princess Elizabeth Land, ...
in 1958.
Important Bird Area
The island forms part of the Magnetic Island and nearby islands
Important Bird Area (IBA), comprising
Magnetic, Turner,
Waterhouse,
Lugg,
Boyd Boyd may refer to:
Places Canada
* Boyd Conservation Area, a conservation area located northwest of Toronto, Ontario
* Boyd Lake (disambiguation)
United States
* Boyd County (disambiguation)
* Boyd, Indiana
* Boyd, Iowa
* Boyd, Kansas
* B ...
and
Bluff Islands, along with intervening islands and marine area. The site was designated an IBA by
BirdLife International because it supports large colonies of
Adélie penguins totalling some 29,000 breeding pairs, based on 2012 satellite imagery.
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See also
*
List of Antarctic and Subantarctic islands
References
External links
*
Important Bird Areas of Antarctica
Penguin colonies
Islands of Princess Elizabeth Land
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