Carrel Island

Carrel Island, also known as Le Mauguen Island, is a small, rocky island 400 metres (1,300 ft) long lying 200 metres (660 ft) south of Petrel Island in the Géologie Archipelago of Antarctica. It was charted in 1950 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them for Alexis Carrel, noted French surgeon and physiologist.[1]

Carrel Island
Le Mauguen
Carrel Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates66°40′S 140°1′E
ArchipelagoGéologie Archipelago
Length400 m (1300 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Antarctic Specially Protected Area

A site cluster in the heart of the Géologie Archipelago, south and east, and in the immediate vicinity, of Petrel Island and Dumont d'Urville Station, comprises Carrel, Jean Rostand, Claude Bernard and Lamarck Islands, Bon Docteur Nunatak, and a breeding site of emperor penguins on the intervening sea ice. The site is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.120. It was designated as such because it contains representative examples of terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems. Apart from the emperor penguin colony, the only one of about 30 in Antarctica that lies close to a permanent research station, birds nesting in the area include Adélie penguins, Antarctic skuas, Wilson's storm petrels, southern giant petrels, snow petrels and Cape petrels. Weddell seals also occur there.[2]

See also
  • List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

References
  1. "Carrel Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. "Pointe Géologie Archipelago, Terre Adélie" (PDF). Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 120: Measure 2, Annex E. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2005. Retrieved 2013-01-31.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Carrel Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)


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