ANTARCTICA (Day 4) - HOPE BAY
Hope Bay is an ocean bay three miles long and two miles wide, indenting the Trinity Peninsula at the tip of Graham Island in the British Antarctic Territory and opening onto Antarctic Sound. It was formerly the site of the a British Antarctic Survey base, closed in 1964, and now the site of a brace of foreign Antarctic bases.The bay has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports one of the largest Adélie penguin colonies in Antarctica with around 125,000 pairs. Other birds nesting at the site include gentoo penguins, brown skuas, Antarctic terns, Wilson's storm-petrels, kelp gulls and snowy sheathbills
