Cape Crozier
ASPA 124
Antarctica (Ross Island, Ross Sea)Designated in 196632 km²
The setting of "The Worst Journey in the World", an almost suicidal 1911 expedition to collect emperor penguin eggs in the depths of the polar winter
Area
32 km²
Designated in
1966
Region
Antarctica (Ross Island, Ross Sea)
Protected since 1966, Cape Crozier holds one of the few emperor penguin breeding colonies relatively easy to reach from the bases of the Ross Sea area. It is the setting of the celebrated "worst journey in the world", an almost suicidal expedition made in the depths of the Antarctic winter of 1911 by three members of Scott's Terra Nova expedition — including the naturalist Apsley Cherry-Garrard, who gave his memoirs that title — who walked for weeks at temperatures down to -60°C to collect emperor penguin eggs, then thought to be the key to understanding the supposed evolutionary link between birds and reptiles.
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Cape Crozier: 8 documented species
Mammals3Birds5
Threatened:,
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Birdwatching
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