Lindsey Islands

The Lindsey Islands are a group of islands lying by the north-western tip of the Canisteo Peninsula, in the eastern Amundsen Sea between Ferrero and Cranton Bays, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

They form the emergent part of a shelf, less than 200 m deep, made of granitic rocks.

They are mostly ice-free in summer, and two small freshwater ponds are present on the largest island.

[1] The islands were delineated from aerial photos taken by the US Navy's Operation Highjump in December 1946.

[1] An 841 ha site, comprising the Lindsey Islands group and the intervening marine area, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports about 53,000 breeding pairs of Adélie penguins, as estimated by 2011 satellite imagery.