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Warriner Island is a small ice-free island in the
Warriner Island is a small ice-free island in the Donskiye Islands
The Donskiye Islands form a small archipelago, including Warriner Island and Redfearn Island, off Breidnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica.
Discovery and naming
The islands were mapped from aerial p ...
group lying just off the west end 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 ...
in the Vestfold Hills, off the coast of East Antarctica
East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying on the Indian Ocean side of the continent, separated from West Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains. It lies almost ...
. It is 1.2 km long by 0.7 km wide, reaching an elevation of 52 m.
Discovery and naming
It was first mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition of 1936–1937, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for A. Warriner, the radio officer at Davis Station in 1961.Important Bird Area
A 68 ha site, comprising the whole island, has been designated anImportant Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
(IBA) by BirdLife International
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because it supports a breeding colony of about 24,000 pairs of Adélie penguin
The Adélie penguin (''Pygoscelis adeliae'') is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is the only place where it is found. It is the most widespread penguin species, and, along with the emperor p ...
s, estimated from 2012 satellite imagery. The nearest permanent research station is Australia's Davis
Davis may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Mount Davis (Antarctica)
* Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago)
* Davis Valley, Queen Elizabeth Land
Canada
* Davis, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community
* Davis Strait, between Nunavut and Gre ...
, 4 km to the north-east on Breidnes Peninsula.
See also
* List of Antarctic and Subantarctic islandsReferences
External links
* Important Bird Areas of Antarctica Penguin colonies Islands of Princess Elizabeth Land {{PrincessElizabethLand-geo-stub