Danger Islands


The Danger Islands is a group of small islands lying east-south-east of Joinville Island near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They were discovered on 28 December 1842 by a British expedition under James Clark Ross, who so named them because, appearing among heavy fragments of ice, they were almost completely concealed until the ship was nearly upon them.
The Danger Islands comprise:
The Danger Islands have been identified as an "important bird area" by BirdLife International because it supports Adélie penguin colonies and seabirds. 751,527 pairs of Adélie penguins have been recorded in at least five distinct colonies as of March 2018.