Petermann Island
by Alan Toepfer
Title
Petermann Island
Artist
Alan Toepfer
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Photograph - Giclee On Paper Or Canvas
Description
Gentoo penguins sun themselves on Petermann Island on a sunny Antarctic day. Feb. 16, 2007. Petermann Island is a small, low and rounded island, lying off the northwest coast of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, a short distance south of Booth Island and the Lemaire Channel. It is a popular tourist destination. The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of about 3000 pairs of Gentoo Penguins. Other birds nesting at the site in smaller numbers include Adelie Penguins, Imperial Shags, Wilson's Storm Petrels and South Polar Skuas. The island was discovered by a German expedition of 1873-74, who named it after geographer August Petermann. The cross commemorates three members of the British Antarctic Survey who died in a 1982 attempt to cross the sea ice from Faraday Station to Petermann.
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January 17th, 2014
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