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Possession Islands

Islands of Antarctica

Field	Value
name	Possession Islands
map	Antarctica
location	Antarctica
coordinates	.
population	Uninhabited
country	Antarctica
treaty_system	Antarctic Treaty System

The Possession Islands () are a group of small islands and rocks extending over an area of about 7 nmi, lying in the western part of the Ross Sea, lying 5 nmi south-east of Cape McCormick, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Possession Islands were named by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, in commemoration of the planting of the British flag here on January 12, 1841.

Important Bird Area

A 276 ha site comprising the whole of Possession Island has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports about 111,000 breeding pairs of Adélie penguins, based on ground counts made from 1981 to 2012. A significant south polar skua colony is also present on the island.

Features

Possession islands to the extreme southeast of map

Named features, from south to north, are:

Heftye Island

Bull Island

Kemp Rock

Foyn Island

Main article: Foyn Island

St. Marie Peak

Favreau Pillar

Kristensen Rocks

Dickson Pillar

Possession Island

Archer Peak

References

Sources

{{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2024-01-21 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G.

References

. (2015). ["Possession Island"](http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/possession-island-iba-antarctica). *BirdLife International*.
(September 1959). "Naval Aviation News".

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