Auster rookery

Auster Rookery is an Emperor penguin rookery on sea-ice, sheltered by grounded icebergs, 5 kilometres (2.7 nmi) east of the Auster Islands, and about 51 kilometres (28 nmi) ENE of Mawson Station in Antarctica. It was discovered in August 1957 by Flying Officer D. Johnston, RAAF, from an ANARE Auster aircraft, after which it was named. The rookery was estimated in 2009 to contain 7,855 individual emperor penguiins, and has been designated an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International.[1]

"Auster Rookery". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2020.

Important Bird Areas of Antarctica
Queen Elizabeth Land	Berkner Island
Coats Land	Coalseam Cliffs Mount Faraway Stewart Buttress Dawson-Lambton Glacier Luitpold Coast Stancomb-Wills Glacier
Queen Maud Land	Atka Iceport Drescher Inlet Gruber Mountains Jutulsessen Muskegbukta Princess Ragnhild Coast Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf Riiser-Larsen Peninsula Svarthamaren Mountain
Enderby Land	Cape Batterbee Mount Biscoe
Kemp Land	Kloa Point
Mac. Robertson Land	Andersen Island Auster Rookery Cape Darnley Gibbney Island Kirton Island Klung Island Macklin Island Murray Monolith Rookery Islands Scullin Monolith Taylor Rookery Welch Island
Princess Elizabeth Land	Amanda Bay Bluff Island Boyd Island Caro Island Donskiye Islands Filla Island Gardner Island Hop Island Kazak Island Lucas Island Lugg Island Magnetic Island Rookery Lake Tryne Islands Turner Island Warriner Island Waterhouse Island West Ice Shelf Zolotov Island
Queen Mary Land	Haswell Island Shackleton Ice Shelf
Wilkes Land	Ardery Island Beall Island Berkley Island Cameron Island Clark Peninsula Dibble Glacier Holl Island O'Connor Island Odbert Island Peterson Island Shirley Island
Adélie Land	Cape Bienvenue Cape Jules Curzon Islands Empereur Island Géologie Archipelago
George V Land	Cape Denison Cape Hunter Cape-Pigeon Rocks Greater Mackellar Island Lesser Mackellar Island Mackellar Islands Mertz Glacier Way Archipelago
Oates Land	Arthurson Ridge Kartografov Island Mount Archer Sturge Island
Victoria Land	Adélie Cove Blue Glacier to Cape Chocolate Cape Adare Cape Main Cape Roget Cape Wadworth Cape Washington Cotter Cliffs Dailey Islands Depot Island Downshire Cliffs Duke of York Island Dunlop Island Edmonson Point Foyn Island Gregory Island Inexpressible Island Mandible Cirque Possession Islands Seabee Hook
Ross Sea	Beaufort Island Bernacchi Head Cape Crozier Caughley Beach Franklin Island southwest McDonald Beach Rocky Point
King Edward VII Land	Cape Colbeck
Marie Byrd Land	Brownson Islands Edwards Islands Hummer Point Lindsey Islands Maher Island Mathewson Point Mount Paterson Thurston Glacier Worley Point
Ellsworth Land	Schaefer Islands Sikorski Glacier
Palmer Land	Sims Island Smith Peninsula Smyley Island
Graham Land	Ambush Bay Apéndice Island Armstrong Reef Avian Island Bates Island Brash Island Brown Bluff Cape Evensen Cape Wollaston Cierva Point Cockburn Island Cormorant Island Cuverville Island D'Urville Monument Danger Islands Devil Island Dion Islands Dodman Island Dream Island Duroch Islands Earle Island Eden Rocks Emperor Island Gerlache Island Ginger Islands Gourdin Island Guépratte Island Hope Bay Joubin Islands Lagotellerie Island Litchfield Island Madder Cliffs Midas Island Moss Islands Murray Island Paulet Island Pearl Rocks Penguin Point Petermann Island Pursuit Point Rosenthal Islands Ryder Bay Islands Snow Hill Island Stonington Island Trinity Island Tupinier Islands Uruguay Island
South Shetland Islands	Admiralty Bay Ardley Island Aspland Island Baily Head Barnard Point Byers Peninsula Cape Bowles Cape Garry Cape Hooker Cape Lookout Cape Melville Cape Shirreff Cape Wallace Chinstrap Cove Eadie Island East of Nelly Point Eastern Litwin Bay Escarpada Point False Round Point Fur Seal Point Gibbs Island Half Moon Island Harmony Point Heywood Island Jameson Point Kellick Island Lions Rump Milosz Point Mount Elder North Foreland O'Brien Island Owen Island Penguin Island Point Hennequin Point Wordie Potter Peninsula Pottinger Point Saddleback Point Seal Islands Stinker Point Sugarloaf Island Tartar Island Vapour Col Walker Point Yankee Harbour
South Orkney Islands	Atriceps Island Buchanan Point Cape Davidson Cape Hansen Cape Robertson Cape Whitson Cheal Point Christoffersen Island Eillium Island Ferguslie Peninsula Ferrier Peninsula Fraser Point Fredriksen Island Gibbon Bay Gosling Islands Graptolite Island Grey Island Inaccessible Islands Larsen Islands Matthews Island Michelsen Island Moe Island Moreton Point Pirie Peninsula Point Martin Return Point Robertson Islands Shingle Cove Signy Island Skilling Island Southern Powell Island Watson Peninsula Weddell Islands

Emperor penguins near grounded icebergs at Auster Rookery, Antarctica

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