Atriceps Island

Atriceps Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	60°47′S 45°9′W / 60.783°S 45.150°W / -60.783; -45.150
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Atriceps Island is the southernmost of the Robertson Islands, lying 5.6 kilometres (3 nmi) south of the south-east end of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of imperial shags (Phalacrocorax atriceps), after which the island was named in 1948–49 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, with 524 pairs recorded in 1988.^[1]

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

•  This article incorporates public domain material from "Atriceps Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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