Census of breeding Antarctic petrels Thalassoica antarctica and physical features of the breeding colony at Svarthamaren, Dronning Maud Land, with notes on breeding snow petrels Pagodroma nivea and south polar skuas Catharacta maccormicki

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Mehlum, Fridtjof, Gjessing, Yngvar, Haftorn, Svein, Bech, Claus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1988
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Nivea; Svarthamaren; Jutulsessen; Antarc*; Antarctic Petrel; Antarctica; Catharacta maccormicki; Polar Research; Snow Petrels; South Polar Skuas; Thalassoica antarctica
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2413; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v6i1.6841

Only about a dozen breeding colonies of the Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica are known, all confined to the Antarctic continent. In 1985 one of the largest colonies, situated in Muhlig-Hofmannfjella, Dronning Maud Land, c. 200 km from the open sea and at an elevation of 1600 m a.s.l. was cens...