This large albatross breeds on islands in the South Atlantic. Adults are mostly white, and birds range widely across the South Atlantic outside the breeding period.
Adults are mostly white, with brown areas on the wings; the pink bill has a yellowish tip.
It breeds on Gough and Inaccessible Islands. Outside the breeding season it ranges to South American waters and waters off Namibia and Angola, feeding on fish and squid.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.