Boatswain Bird Island

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Boatswain Bird Iceland is a rocky island about 280 m off the northeastern coast of Ascension Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

Owes its name to the island of the Red- Tropikvögeln that were referred to the British sailors as boatswain birds. The island covers an area of ​​340 m × 220 m and consists of a 104 m high flat rock which has received from the guano deposits a white color. There is a natural stone arch of lava rock on the south coast of the island. In the 1920s, has been mined on Boatswain Bird Iceland guano.

At the beginning of the 19th century was Ascension of habitat for millions of seabirds. When spread out around 1815 cats and rats on Ascension, the former abundance of birds have been decimated. Boatswain Bird Iceland has become for several species such as the Madeira wave runner, the red billed tropic bird, the White -tailed Tropicbird, the Little Tern and the Noddi Adlerfregattvogel a safe haven, where they formed new breeding colonies. In 1977, the island was declared a strictly protected bird sanctuary.