Eden Rocks

Large numbers of Adélie penguins breed in the IBA

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

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

  1. ^ "Eden Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
  2. ^ "Eden Rocks". BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas. BirdLife International. 2012. Archived from the original on 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2012-12-19.

Public Domain 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 / -63.483; -55.667


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