Matthews Island

It lies immediately south-east of Coronation Island, from which it is separated by a narrow channel known as the Divide.

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Drummond H. Matthews, a FIDS geologist at Signy Island in 1956.

[1] The island is part of the Robertson Islands North Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports substantial breeding colonies of chinstrap penguins totalling about 35,000 pairs, of which some 15,000 pairs nest on Matthews Island.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from "Matthews Island".

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Matthews Island.