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Cardigan Island (Welsh: Ynys Aberteifi) is an uninhabited island north of Cardigan, Ceredigion, south-west Wales. It reaches a height of 52 metres (171 ft) a.s.l., and 38 acres (15 ha) in area.

Cardigan Island
Native name:
Ynys Aberteifi
Carreg Lydan and Cardigan Island
Cardigan Island
Cardigan Island (Wales)
Geography
LocationCardigan, Wales
Coordinates52.133331°N 4.683333°W / 52.133331; -4.683333
Administration
Wales
CountyCeredigion
Demographics
Population0 (uninhabited)

Lying in the estuary of the River Teifi, it is known for having a small colony of grey seals. It is within 200 metres (220 yd) of the Welsh coastline near Gwbert. It is owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales.

The island was once the home of puffins and Manx shearwater. A guide book in the 1890s referred to the puffins as “Welsh parrots”. In 1924 Welsh writer and naturalist Ronald Lockley wrote that there were probably 25 to 30 pairs on the island. However, in 1934 the liner Herefordshire, being towed to the breakers' yard,[1] ran aground on the island in a storm, and rats made it ashore. Over a period of years they ate the eggs and chicks of nesting seabirds, and wiped out the island’s population of puffin and Manx shearwater, which have never returned.[2] The wreck has attracted a wide variety of marine life and is a diving attraction. It was 45 years before the rat population was exterminated.[3]

Today, birds such as guillemots, razorbills, cormorants, shags, fulmars and a variety of sea-gulls all nest on the island. Bottlenose dolphins and Atlantic grey seals are also often seen in the sea around the island.[4]

Cardigan Island as viewed from the coastal path
Cardigan Island as viewed from the coastal path
[Interactive fullscreen map]
Map of Cardigan Island

See also



References


  1. "The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales: 50 years - Cardigan Island". Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  2. walesonline Administrator (30 December 2010). "A history of Cardigan Island". walesonline.
  3. "Storm of 1934 changed Cardigan Island forever". Wales Online. 30 December 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  4. "Visit Cardigan Island". cardiganisland.net. Archived from the original on 3 February 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2006.



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[de] Cardigan Island

Cardigan Island (walisisch Ynys Aberteifi) ist eine kleine, unbewohnte Insel nördlich von Cardigan, in Ceredigion, Südwest-Wales. Die Felsen der Insel steigen bis auf 52 m (171 ft) über dem Meer an. Die Insel hat eine Fläche von 38 acres (15,38 ha).
- [en] Cardigan Island

[fr] Ynys Aberteifi

Ynys Aberteifi est une île du pays de Galles située à environ six kilomètres au nord-nord-ouest d'Aberteifi, dans le Ceredigion. Elle est connue en anglais sous le nom de Cardigan Island[1].


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