Gibney Reef

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Gibney Reef
Waters Vincennes Bay
archipelago Windmill Islands
Geographical location 66 ° 15 ′  S , 110 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 15 ′  S , 110 ° 30 ′  E
Gibney Reef (Antarctica)
Gibney Reef
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Gibney Reef (below center)
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Gibney Reef (below center)

The Gibney Reef is a reef in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It is 800 m west of the Clark Peninsula .

The crew of the icebreaker USS Glacier mapped it in February 1957. Lieutenant Robert Carl Newcomb (1926-2008), navigator of the ship, named it after the sailor Joseph Gibney, who was involved in this mapping.

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