Gibney Reef
Gibney Reef | ||
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Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
Geographical location | 66 ° 15 ′ S , 110 ° 30 ′ E | |
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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.
Web links
- Gibney Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gibney Reef on geographic.org (English)