A Waypoint in the Southern Ocean

Remote Macquarie Island has been a stopover for Antarctic explorers and breeding populations of penguins and seals.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Waypoint in the Southern Ocean.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published July 11, 2023
Data acquired February 8, 2022