View from space of the Eagle Islands with Sea Cow the round, smaller, more southerly island
Historyedit
It was named after the dugongs that were once abundant in the area, although they have since become regionally extinct.[1][2] It is the smaller of the two islands in the Eagle Islands group on the western side of the atoll and forms part of the Chagos Archipelago strict nature reserve. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of its significance as a breeding site for brown noddies, of which 11,500 pairs were recorded in a 2004 survey.[3]
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