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Drescher Inlet

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Coordinates: 72°49′57″S 19°13′07″W / 72.83250°S 19.21861°W / -72.83250; -19.21861
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Emperor penguins breed in the IBA

Drescher Inlet, also known as Dreschereisfrontkerbe, is an inlet or iceport in the front Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf on the coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Some 25 km long and 3 km wide, it was named after Eberhard Drescher (1944–1983), a marine biologist at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Important Bird Area

A 368 ha site on fast ice near the inlet has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a colony of about 6,600 emperor penguinss, the number estimated from 2009 satellite imagery. Weddell seals are also known to breed in the vicinity.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Drescher Inlet (Dreschereisfrontkerbe)". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2020.

72°49′57″S 19°13′07″W / 72.83250°S 19.21861°W / -72.83250; -19.21861

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