A 415 ha site comprising Welch Island, neighbouring Klung Island, and the intervening smaller islands and marine area, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports about 36,000 breeding pairs of Adélie penguins, based on 2012 satellite imagery. Snow petrels breed on high ground on the islands. The islands are mostly ice-free in summer and several lakes are present.[2]
welch, island, island, long, with, prominent, pinnacle, rock, lying, north, rouse, islands, eastern, side, holme, robertson, land, antarctica, lies, south, welch, rocks, location, antarcticageographylocationantarcticacoordinates67, 933length1, width1, highest,. Welch Island is an island 1 8 km 1 1 mi long with a prominent pinnacle rock of 130 m 427 ft lying north of the Rouse Islands and 2 km 1 2 mi off the eastern side of Holme Bay in Mac Robertson Land Antarctica It lies 1 km 0 6 mi south of Welch Rocks Welch IslandWelch IslandLocation in AntarcticaGeographyLocationAntarcticaCoordinates67 34 S 62 56 E 67 567 S 62 933 E 67 567 62 933Length1 8 km 1 12 mi Width1 km 0 6 mi Highest elevation130 m 430 ft AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited Contents 1 Discovery and naming 2 Important Bird Area 3 See also 4 ReferencesDiscovery and naming editWelch Island was discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson who named it for B F Welch Second Engineer on the RRS Discovery 1 Important Bird Area editA 415 ha site comprising Welch Island neighbouring Klung Island and the intervening smaller islands and marine area has been designated an Important Bird Area IBA by BirdLife International because it supports about 36 000 breeding pairs of Adelie penguins based on 2012 satellite imagery Snow petrels breed on high ground on the islands The islands are mostly ice free in summer and several lakes are present 2 See also editComposite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic islands south of 60 S SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica Moller BankReferences edit U S Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System Welch Island Klung Island Welch Island BirdLife Data Zone BirdLife International 2015 Retrieved 13 November 2020 Portals nbsp Birds nbsp Geography nbsp Earth sciences nbsp Weather nbsp This Mac Robertson Land location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Welch Island amp oldid 1191010302, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
