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Albatross Island (54°1?S 37°20?W) is an island 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Cape Buller, lying in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who gave this name because he observed albatrosses there.
The island is rat-free and there is a breeding population of South Georgia pipits here, along with wandering albatrosses and giant petrels.
The island has been designated by the South Georgia Government as a Specially Protected Area, and has been closed to visitors since 2004, to protect vulnerable habitat from trampling.
Video Albatross Island (South Georgia)
See also
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
Maps Albatross Island (South Georgia)
References
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