Lugg_Island

Lugg Island

Lugg Island

Island of Antarctica

Lugg Island is a small island in the Donskiye Islands group lying 2 km (1.2 mi) north-west of Lake Island, off the west end of Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica. It was first plotted from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Dr. D. Lugg, medical officer at Davis Station in 1963, who visited the island for biological studies.[1]

Quick Facts Geography, Location ...

Important Bird Area

The island forms part of the Magnetic Island and nearby islands Important Bird Area (IBA), comprising Magnetic, Turner, Waterhouse, Lugg, Boyd and Bluff Islands, along with intervening islands and marine area. The site was designated an IBA by BirdLife International because it supports large colonies of Adélie penguins totalling some 29,000 breeding pairs, based on 2012 satellite imagery.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Lugg Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
  2. [2]
    "Magnetic Island and nearby islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2020.


Stub icon

This Princess Elizabeth Land location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Lugg_Island, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.