Paulet Island (63°35'S, 55°47'W) - landscape in conflict of tourism with conservation of nature and historical monuments

• Main Author: Fritzsche, Diedrich
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Chionis; Hydrurga; Nivea; Paulet; Paulet Island; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Hydrurga leptonyx; Leopard Seals; Leptonychotes weddelli; Phalacrocorax atriceps; Pygoscelis adeliae; Snow Petrel
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12643/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12643/1/Fri2005d.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23058; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23058.d001

Paulet Island is a roughly circular islet with about 3 km diameter in the north-western Weddell Sea. It is a volcanic crater island with a lake which is about 500 m long and a conic summit rising an elevation of 385 m. Major nesting places of sea birds are situated on the northern scree slopes of th...