Gibbney Island
| Gibbney Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 62 ° 20 ′ E | |
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Gibbney Island (in Norway Bryggeholmen , German loading place island ) is an island off the Mawson coast of the east Antarctic Mac-Robertson-Land . It is located on the west side of Holme Bay .
Aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 were used by Norwegian cartographers to map the island. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia changed the naming used by the Norwegians and named the island after Leslie F. Gibbney (* 1923), head of the research station of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions on the island of Heard in the southern Indian Ocean in 1952 .
Web links
- Gibbney Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gibbney Island on geographic.org (English)