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Sabrina Island
Sabrina Island monolith.jpg

Sabrina Island monolith
Sabrina Island is located in Antarctica

Sabrina Island

Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates

66°57′S 163°17′E / 66.950°S 163.283°E / -66.950; 163.283Coordinates: 66°57′S 163°17′E / 66.950°S 163.283°E / -66.950; 163.283
Archipelago Balleny Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population Uninhabited

Sabrina Island is the largest of three small islets lying 1.5 km (0.93 mi) south of Buckle Island in the Balleny Islands of Antarctica and are part of New Zealand’s Ross Dependency.

History[edit]

Sabrina Island was named after Thomas Freeman’s cutter when John Balleny’s squadron discovered the islands in 1839. A pair of islets called The Monolith are located off of the island’s southern tip. The Fifth French Antarctic Expedition led by Frank Liotard landed there on 3 March 1949, but could spend only a few hours ashore.[1]

The island has outstanding environmental and scientific value as a representative sample of the Balleny Islands – the only oceanic archipelago located within the main Antarctic Coastal Current. It is a breeding site for chinstrap and Adélie penguins as well as Cape petrels. The site is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.104.[2]

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References[edit]

  1. ^

    Pierre Dubard and Luc-Marie Bayle (1951). Le “Charcot” et la Terre Adélie (in French). Paris: Éditions France Empire. pp. 120–122.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

  2. ^ “Sabrina Island, Northern Ross Sea, Antarctica” (PDF). Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 104: Measure 3, Annex. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2013.