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Kazak Island lies 1 km south of Hawker Island and 0.5 km west of the Mule Peninsula, in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. The nearest permanent research station is Australia's Davis, some 10 km to the north-east on Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills.[1]

Kazak Island

Adélie penguins breed in the IBA
Kazak Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica
Coordinates	68°39′48″S 77°50′15″E
Length	0.6 km (0.37 mi)
Width	0.45 km (0.28 mi)
Highest elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Discovery and naming

The island was mapped from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and also photographed by the USN’s Operation Highjump (1946–47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1956, and by ANARE in 1957 and 1958. It was named Ostrov Kazak ('Cossack Island') by the Soviet Expedition.[2]

Important Bird Area

A 167 hectare site, which comprises all of Kazak Island, neighbouring Zolotov Island and the intervening marine area, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports about 23,000 breeding pairs of Adélie penguins, based on estimates made in 1981/82.[1]

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Kazak Island (englisch; russisch Остров Казак .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Ostrow Kasak, deutsch ‚Kasacheninsel‘) ist eine kleine Insel vor der Ingrid-Christensen-Küste des ostantarktischen Prinzessin-Elisabeth-Lands. Im südlichen Gebiet der Vestfoldberge liegt sie in der Prydz Bay 1 km südlich der Insel Muløy.

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