Cape Lookout (South Shetland Islands)

- 61.2242 - 55.1555Koordinaten: 61 ° 13 ' 27.1 "S, 55 ° 9' 19.8 " W

Cape Lookout, also known as Cabo and Cabo Vigia Fossatti, is a 240 m high, steep -rise cape at the southern end of the rocky and uninhabited island Iceland Elephant in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.

Designation

The name Cape Lookout is found for the first time on a in 1822 by the British captain and sealers George Powell ( 1794-1823 ) during an expedition to the area -made map and is now in use internationally.

Bird sanctuary

An ice-free, 113 -acre coastal strip 2 km extending from the Cape to the west and rises to a height of over 250 meters, has been recognized by the world 's governing body of the bird protection associations BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA ) because there each year a large breeding colony of around 12,000 pairs chinstrap penguins gathered.

Among other Antarctic bird species such as petrels, albatrosses, kelp gulls, White sheathbills beaks and other penguin species also sea lions and Southern elephant seals come ashore at Cape Lookout.