Coalseam Cliffs
Important Bird Area of Antarctica
Coalseam Cliffs are rock cliffs forming the north-western part of Mount Faraway in the Theron Mountains. They were first mapped in 1956–57 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), and so named because a coal seam was found when members of the CTAE made an aircraft landing there in 1957.
Important Bird Area
Coalseam Cliffs is part of the 665 ha Coalseam Cliffs and Mount Faraway Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports a colony of about 10,000 breeding pairs of Antarctic petrels. The birds nest in a scree-filled hollow between two 60 m high dolerite cliffs, a location also known as Stewart Buttress. Other birds recorded as breeding in the vicinity include snow petrels and south polar skuas.[1]
References
- ^ "Coalseam Cliffs / Mount Faraway". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
External links
This article incorporates public domain material from "Coalseam Cliffs". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
79°10′S 28°50′W / 79.167°S 28.833°W / -79.167; -28.833
- v
- t
- e
Antarctica
- Antarctic sea ice
- Climate
- Ice shelves
- Geology
- Glaciers
- Mountains
- Tundra
- Volcanoes
| Regions | |
|---|---|
| Bodies of Water | |
| Life |
Category
Commons- Index
Portals:
Birds
Geography
Earth sciences
Weather
 | This Coats Land location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
