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A 368 ha site on fast ice near the inlet has been designated an
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Robertson Land 132: /  64:Important Bird Area 58:Important Bird Area 16:Inlet of Antarctica 1370:Eastern Litwin Bay 1107:D'Urville Monument 844:Possession Islands 726:Kartografov Island 100:BirdLife Data Zone 25: 1782: 1781: 1696: 1695: 1658:Robertson Islands 1603:Graptolite Island 1588:Fredriksen Island 1578:Ferrier Peninsula 1380:False Round Point 1257:Stonington Island 1247:Ryder Bay Islands 1242:Rosenthal Islands 1192:Litchfield Island 1102:Cuverville Island 693:Mackellar Islands 678:Cape-Pigeon Rocks 511:Waterhouse Island 34:, is an inlet or 1847: 1825:Penguin colonies 1803: 1796: 1789: 1761: 1749: 1748: 1737: 1736: 1735: 1725: 1724: 1723: 1713: 1712: 1711: 1704: 1683:Watson Peninsula 1628:Michelsen Island 1490:Sugarloaf Island 1475:Saddleback Point 1465:Potter Peninsula 1395:Half Moon Island 1267:Tupinier Islands 1252:Snow Hill Island 1232:Petermann Island 1172:Guépratte Island 1097:Cormorant Island 996:Sikorski Glacier 991:Schaefer Islands 968:Thurston Glacier 933:Brownson 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Islands 1117:Devil Island 1087:Cierva Point 1077:Cape Evensen 1067:Brash Island 1062:Bates Island 1057:Avian Island 973:Worley Point 953:Maher Island 943:Hummer Point 915:Cape Colbeck 877:Cape Crozier 799:Depot Island 731:Mount Archer 668:Cape Denison 567:Beall Island 491:Rookery Lake 476:Lucas Island 471:Kazak Island 456:Filla Island 436:Bluff Island 413:Welch Island 383:Klung Island 368:Cape Darnley 322:Mount Biscoe 309:Enderby Land 263: 259:Atka Iceport 117: 104:. 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iceport
Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf
Queen Maud Land
Antarctica
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Important Bird Area
BirdLife International
emperor penguins
Weddell seals
"Drescher Inlet (Dreschereisfrontkerbe)"
72°49′57″S 19°13′07″W / 72.83250°S 19.21861°W / -72.83250; -19.21861
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Important Bird Areas
Queen Elizabeth Land
Berkner Island
Coats Land
Coalseam Cliffs
Mount Faraway
Stewart Buttress
Dawson-Lambton Glacier
Luitpold Coast
Stancomb-Wills Glacier
Queen Maud Land
Atka Iceport
Drescher Inlet
Gruber Mountains
Jutulsessen

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