torgersen, island, small, rocky, island, lying, just, east, litchfield, island, entrance, arthur, harbour, south, west, coast, anvers, island, palmer, archipelago, antarctica, surveyed, falkland, islands, dependencies, survey, 1955, named, torstein, torgersen,. Torgersen Island is a small rocky island lying just east of Litchfield Island in the entrance to Arthur Harbour off the south west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955 and named by the UK APC for Torstein Torgersen first mate of the Harbor in late February 1955 preceding the vessel Norsel in one of the ship s boats and making soundings TorgersenTorgersenLocation in AntarcticaGeographyLocationAntarcticaCoordinates64 46 S 64 5 W 64 767 S 64 083 W 64 767 64 083ArchipelagoPalmer ArchipelagoAdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulation0Birds editThe island formed part of the Northern Arthur Harbour Important Bird Area IBA number 013 identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports significant seabird breeding colonies 1 The Arthur Harbour IBA was delisted in 2015 2 See also editList of Antarctic and subantarctic islandsReferences edit Northern Arthur Harbour area BirdLife data zone Important Bird Areas BirdLife International 2013 Retrieved 11 January 2013 Important Bird Areas in Antarctica 2015 Summary PDF Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty Website Retrieved 11 May 2019 nbsp This Palmer Archipelago location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Torgersen Island amp oldid 1124828049, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
