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Emperor Island is a small island in Marguerite Bay, lying close north-east of the Courtier Islands in the Dion Islands. The islands in this group were discovered and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition. This island was surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee because a low rock and shingle isthmus at the south-eastern end of the island was the winter breeding site of emperor penguins.[1]

Emperor Island

Emperor Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	67°52′S 68°43′W
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Important Bird Area

A 467 ha site, coinciding with that of Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.107, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of Antarctic shags. It is likely that emperor penguins no longer breed on the island.[2]

See also

• List of Antarctic and Subantarctic islands

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Emperor Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

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[de] Emperor Island

Emperor Island ist eine kleine Insel im Norden der Marguerite Bay vor der Fallières-Küste des Grahamlands auf der Antarktischen Halbinsel. In der Gruppe der Dion-Inseln liegt sie unmittelbar nordöstlich der Courtier Islands.

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