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Atriceps Island
Atriceps
Island
is the
southernmost
of the
Robertson Islands
,
lying
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, after which
the island
was named in 1948-49 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
, with
524
pairs
recorded
in 1988.
