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Emperor Island

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Location
  
Antarctica

Population
  
Uninhabited

Emperor Island

Emperor Island is a small island in Marguerite Bay, lying close northeast of the Courtier Islands in the Dion Islands. The islands in this group were discovered and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition. This island was surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee because a low rock and shingle isthmus at the southeast end of the island is the winter breeding site of emperor penguins.

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Emperor Island Wikipedia