Cape Garry

Cape Garry is a cape forming the south-western extremity of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was charted and named by a British expedition under Henry Foster, 1828–31, and was more accurately mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959 from aerial photographs taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1955–57.[1]

Chinstrap penguins breed in the IBA

Important Bird Area

The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a very large breeding colony of about 110,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, as well as about ten pairs of Antarctic shags.[2]

References
  1. "Garry, Cape". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
  2. "Cape Garry, Low Island". BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas. BirdLife International. 2012. Archived from the original on 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2012-12-10.

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