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Emperor Island

Coordinates: 67°52′S 68°43′W / 67.867°S 68.717°W / -67.867; -68.717
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Emperor Island
Emperor Island is located in Antarctica
Emperor Island
Emperor Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates67°52′S 68°43′W / 67.867°S 68.717°W / -67.867; -68.717
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Emperor Island is a small island in Marguerite Bay, lying close northeast 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 southeast end of the island is the winter breeding site of emperor penguins.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Emperor Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-03-01.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Emperor Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.