Cape Main
Cape Main is a small cape situated 5 nautical miles (9 km) north of Cape Anne, along the east side of Coulman Island, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1966 for Brian Main, a scientific technician at Hallett Station, 1962–63.[1]
Adélie penguins breed in the IBA
Important Bird Area
A 500 ha site, comprising ice-free ground and a strip of moraine on the eastern coast of the island, some 3 km north of the cape, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a colony of about 18,000 breeding pairs of Adélie penguins.[2]
References
- "Cape Main". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
- "Cape Main, Coulman Island". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
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