SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 2(b)
SCHEDULE 1
RESTRICTED AREAS |
Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 124 |
Cape Crozier, Ross Island |
Lat: 77°30′S; Long: 169°21′E |
Cape Crozier is at the eastern extremity of Ross Island, where an ice-free area comprises the lower eastern slopes of Mount Terror. The designated area is situated in the vicinity of Post Office Hill (407 metres), extending to encompass the adjacent Ross Ice Shelf where large cracks in the shelf are covered by fast-ice which is occupied annually by breeding emperor penguins.
The Area includes a terrestrial region and ice shelf above the mean high water mark as well as the adjacent fast-ice within the boundaries occupied by breeding emperor penguins. The north boundary of the Area extends 6.5 kilometres along the 77°26′00″S line of latitude from 169°11′30″E to 169°28′00″E. The west boundary extends 1.5 kilometres south from the northern boundary to the coast, thence in a south-westerly direction following a low ice-free ridge that passes 30 metres west of the field hut and helicopter pad. The boundary then follows this ridge in a southerly direction to the saddle south-west of the summit of Post Office Hill at 169°11′30″E, 77°28′00″S, before following the 169°11′30″E line of longitude south to a point at 169°11′30″E, 77°31′00″S, which is close to the summit of Bomb Peak (740 metres). The boundary extends down the south-east ridge of Bomb Peak to Igloo Spur at 169°20′00″E, 77°32′00″S, from where it extends due east along latitude 77°32′00″S to the east boundary at 169°28′00″E.
The location and boundaries of the Area are shown on “ASPA No. 124: Cape Crozier, Map 1: Topography & boundary” and “ASPA No. 124: Cape Crozier, Map 2: Access, facilities, and wildlife” on pages 196-197 of the Final Report of the Thirty-first Consultative Meeting of the Antarctic Treaty, published in Cm 7527 (March 2009).
RESTRICTED AREAS |
Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 137 |
Northwest White Island, McMurdo Sound |
Lat: 78°00′S; Long: 167°20′E |
White Island, part of the McMurdo volcanic complex, is situated approximately 20 kilometres south-east of the edge of the McMurdo Ice Shelf and 25 kilometres south-east of Hut Point, the location of McMurdo Station (United States) and Scott Base (New Zealand) on Ross Island. The roughly triangular island is approximately 30 kilometres long and 15 kilometres wide at its maximum, and rises to a maximum elevation of 762 metres in several locations.
The island is predominantly ice-covered with most of the rock outcrops being in the north; it is completely surrounded by permanent shelf ice, between 10 metres and 100 metres in thickness, of the McMurdo Ice Shelf and Ross Ice Shelf.
The Area includes 142 square kilometres of the shelf ice and open-water cracks of both the Ross Ice Shelf and McMurdo Ice Shelf up to 5 kilometres offshore north-east, north and west from the White Island coast. The north-eastern boundary extends from the north-eastern coast of Cape Spencer-Smith (167°32′42″E, 78°00′43″S) 5 kilometres due east to 167°46′37″E, 78°00′43″S. The boundary then extends north-west, and follows a line parallel to and 5 kilometres from the coast, around Cape Spencer Smith and then heading south-west to 167°00′00″E, 78°05′00″S. The boundary then extends due south for 7.8 kilometres to 167°00′00″E, 78°09′12″S, and thence 1.5 kilometres east to the...
