Cape Royds
ASPA (Antarctic Specially Protected Area) 121
Antarctica (Ross Island, Ross Sea)Designated in 196662 km²
The southernmost Adélie penguin colony in the world, beside Shackleton's hut of 1908
Area
62 km²
Designated in
1966
Region
Antarctica (Ross Island, Ross Sea)
Protected since 1966 (today ASPA 121), Cape Royds holds the southernmost known Adélie penguin colony on the planet, monitored continuously since 1955 in one of the longest-running Antarctic wildlife population studies in the world, which has documented a decline in the 1960s and another in 2001–2005, when two giant icebergs cut off its access to the sea, with little recovery after they left. The headland also holds the hut that Ernest Shackleton and his crew built in 1908 during the Nimrod Expedition, today designated a Historic Site and Monument and looked after by New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust, which has meticulously restored its interior, personal belongings and original expedition provisions included.
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Cape Royds: 7 documented species
Mammals3Birds4
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