Kidson Island

Kidson Island is a half-mile long island off the Mawson coast of East Antarctica Mac Robertson Land . It is located 25 km north-northeast of Byrd Head .

Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them in February 1931. Mawson named them after the New Zealand meteorologist Edward Kidson (1882-1939), who wrote the meteorological reports of the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914).

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