Sabrina Island was named after Thomas Freeman's cutter when John Balleny's squadron discovered the islands in 1839. A pair of islets called The Monolith are located off of the island's southern tip. The Fifth French Antarctic Expedition led by Frank Liotard landed there on 3 March 1949, but could spend only a few hours ashore.[1]
Birds
The island has outstanding environmental and scientific value as a representative sample of the Balleny Islands – the only oceanic archipelago located within the main Antarctic Coastal Current. It is a breeding site for chinstrap and Adélie penguins as well as Cape petrels. The site is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.104.[2]
^Pierre Dubard; Luc-Marie Bayle (1951). Le "Charcot" et la Terre Adélie (in French). Paris: Éditions France Empire. pp. 120–122.
^"Sabrina Island, Northern Ross Sea, Antarctica"(PDF). Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 104: Measure 3, Annex. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
