New Island

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New Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying north of Beaver Island.

[edit] History and population

Long used as a base for whaling, as a sheep farm and for occasional attempts to collect guano, New Island is now a nature reserve.

A settlement lies in the middle of the east coast of the island, some distance north of an airstrip.

There is a shipwreck on the island, the Protector III, beached 1969. It was a former sealing vessel.

[edit] Wildlife

Wildlife on the island includes fur seals, elephant seals, southern sea lions, thin-billed prions, rockhopper, gentoo and Magellanic penguins, dolphin gulls and black-browed albatrosses.

There are no native land animals (other than extinct warrah) or trees, but shrubs have been introduced.

[edit] External links

• New Island, with pictures