Avian Island
Avian Island is an island, long and high, lying close off the south tip of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and visited in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who so named it because of the large number and variety of birds found there.Birds
The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of Adélie penguins, as well as imperial shags, south polar skuas, southern giant petrels, kelp gulls and Wilson's storm petrels. It also holds the southernmost record of breeding brown skuas. The island is protected as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.117 for its outstanding ornithological significance.
