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The Danger Islands have been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports Adélie penguin colonies and seabirds. [3] 751,527 pairs of Adélie penguins (1.5 million individuals) have been recorded in at least five distinct colonies as of March 2018.
Danger Island was sighted by the French ship La Bouffonne in 1777. It was given its name by lieutenant Archibald Blair [4] during his 1786 survey of the Chagos archipelago. . Blair described the island at the time: "At dawn of day saw Breakers bearing NE, distant about ½ Mile, which I found at daylight to extend from Danger Island
The islands of the Great Chagos Bank, starting clockwise from the south, are: Danger Island (slightly more than 2 km (1.2 mi) long from North to South, by 1 km (0.62 mi) wide, land area 0.66 km 2 (0.25 sq mi), vegetated with palm trees up to 12 m (39 ft) high.
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Danger Island, Great Chagos Bank, part of Chagos Archipelago in Indian Ocean Danger Island, now known as Pukapuka , an atoll of Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean Danger Islands , near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Southern Ocean
Map of Pukapuka Atoll. Pukapuka, formerly Danger Island, is a coral atoll in the northern group of the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the most remote islands of the Cook Islands, situated about 1,140 kilometres (708 miles) northwest of Rarotonga. On this small island, an ancient culture and distinct language have been ...
Beagle Island is an island lying northeast of Darwin Island in the Danger Islands off the east end of Joinville Island. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 after HMS Beagle (Captain Robert FitzRoy ), due to its proximity to Darwin Island.