Larsen Islands

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The Larsen Islands are a small group of islands within the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands in the Southern Ocean about 1300 km south-east off the coast of Argentina as well as 600 km northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. You are just inside the protected by the Antarctic Treaty territory. The largest island of the group is Monroe Iceland and is located about 10 km from Coronation away.

History

The Larsen Islands were discovered in December 1821 by George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer. The Norwegian captain Petter Sørlle named the islands during a trip in the years 1912-1913 at the measurement of the South Orkney Islands to the whalers and Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen.

In 2011, BirdLife International 1805 ha declared the islands to an important breeding ground for sea birds. In 2010, brooded on the Larsen Islands 125,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins and 125,000 pairs of silver petrels, as well as a smaller number of pairs of snow petrels.