Bailey Head, Deception Island -- photograph

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Seale, Linda N.

• Bailey Head, on Deception Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, is one of the largest known penguin rookeries, extending beyond the top of the first slope from the sea. Deception Island is a drowned caldera (volcanic crater) covered in black volcanic sand from the last eruption in 1970. Photographed January 2004

• Date created

  2004-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Penguin rookeries
  • Drowned caldera
  • Bailey Head
  • Antarctic Peninsula
  • Deception Island
  • Deception Island

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R33N20G5S

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International