Cape Whitson
Cape Whitson,is aheadlandon the south coast ofLaurie Island,the easternmost and second largest of theSouth Orkney IslandsofAntarctica.It lies about 9 km south-east ofArgentina’sOrcadas Base.
It is named after SirThomas Barnby Whitson,Lord Provost of Edinburghat the time of its full mapping in the 1930s by the Edinburgh map-makers J.G.Bartholomew & Sons.[1]
Important Bird Area
[edit]Cape Whitson has been identified as anImportant Bird Area(IBA) byBirdLife Internationalbecause it supports a largebreeding colonyof about 13,000 pairs ofchinstrap penguins.The 54 ha IBA comprises the ice-free land of the cape, extending for 1.5 km betweenAitken CoveandMethuen Cove.It has an elevation of less than 250 m.[2]
References
[edit]- ^Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002(PDF).The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.ISBN0-902-198-84-X.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 4 March 2016.Retrieved20 March2017.
- ^"Cape Whitson, Laurie Island".BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas.BirdLife International. 2012. Archived fromthe originalon 10 July 2007.Retrieved12 December2012.
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