# Torgersen Island

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**Torgersen Island** is a small rocky island lying just east of [Litchfield Island](/source/Litchfield_Island) in the entrance to [Arthur Harbour](/source/Arthur_Harbour), off the south-west coast of [Anvers Island](/source/Anvers_Island) in the [Palmer Archipelago](/source/Palmer_Archipelago) of [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica). It was surveyed by the [Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey](/source/Falkland_Islands_Dependencies_Survey) in 1955 and named by the [UK-APC](/source/UK-APC) for Torstein Torgersen, first mate of the *Harbor* in late February 1955, preceding the vessel [MV *Norsel*](/source/MV_Norsel_(1945)) in one of the ship's boats and making soundings.

## Birds

The island formed part of the Northern Arthur Harbour [Important Bird Area](/source/Important_Bird_Area) (IBA) number 013, identified as such by [BirdLife International](/source/BirdLife_International) because it supports significant [seabird](/source/Seabird) [breeding colonies](/source/Bird_colony).[1] The Arthur Harbour IBA was delisted in 2015.[2]

## See also

- [List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands](/source/List_of_Antarctic_and_subantarctic_islands)

## References

1. ["Northern Arthur Harbour area"](http://www.birdlife.org). *BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas*. BirdLife International. 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2013.

1. ["Important Bird Areas in Antarctica 2015 Summary"](https://documents.ats.aq/ATCM38/att/atcm38_att097_e.pdf). *Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty Website*. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

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