Île Howe is one of the islands of the
Kerguelen
The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly ' but officially ', ), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large ...
archipelago, situated to the north of
Île Foch, just after Île MacMurdo. It is about 8 km in length. Apart from
rabbits, it is free of
introduced animals.
Important Bird Area
The island, along with the neighbouring, and relatively large, islands of
Île Foch and
Île Saint-Lanne Gramont, as well as the smaller Île MacMurdo, Île Briand, Îles Dayman and Îlots Hallet, has been identified by
BirdLife International as an
Important Bird Area (IBA) because of its value as a breeding site, especially for
seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same enviro ...
s, with at least 29 species nesting in the IBA.
[BirdLife International. (2012). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Île Foch, Île Sainte Lanne Gramont and Île Howe. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2012-01-21.]
References
Geoportail - Carte des îles KerguelenTableau général de la France outre-mer - Maison de la Géographie
Howe
Important Bird Areas of Kerguelen
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