Halley Bay

Halley Bay is a location on the fast ice on the north-western margin of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Coats Land, Antarctica. It was named at the same time as the nearby British Halley Research Station. It contains a 177 ha site which has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supported a breeding colony of about 22,500 emperor penguins (estimated from 2009 satellite imagery).[1] although as of 2019 the colony has dispersed due to repeated failure of the sea ice.[2]

The Halley Bay emperor penguin colony in 1999

References
  1. "Brunt Ice Shelf (Halley Bay)". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  2. "Massive penguin colony disappears as birds march south".

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