Kilby Island

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Kilby Island
Waters Newcomb Bay
Archipelago Windmill Islands
Geographical location 66 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 66 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E
Kilby Island (Antarctica)
Kilby Island
length 300 m
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Kilby Island (lower half of the map)
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.

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