Kilby Island
Kilby Island | ||
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Waters | Newcomb Bay | |
Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
Geographical location | 66 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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length | 300 m | |
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Kilby Island (lower half of the map) |
Kilby Island is a 300 m long rock island in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located immediately east of McMullin Island and 250 m southeast of Kilby Reef in the entrance to Newcomb Bay .
The island was mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Operation Windmill (1947-1948). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1956 after Arthur L. Kilby, a photographer in the Central Task Group during Operation Windmill and involved in the creation of aerial photographs of the archipelago in January 1948.
Web links
- Kilby Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kilby Island on geographic.org (English)