Kilby Reef

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Kilby Reef
Waters Vincennes Bay
archipelago Windmill Islands
Geographical location 66 ° 17 ′  S , 110 ° 32 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 17 ′  S , 110 ° 32 ′  E
Kilby Reef (Antarctica)
Kilby Reef
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Kilby Reef (lower half of the map)
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Kilby Reef (lower half of the map)

The Kilby Reef is a small, isolated and visible at low tide reef in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It is located 250 meters southeast of Kilby Island .

The crew of the icebreaker USS Glacier mapped it in February 1957. A new mapping took place in 1962 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions during hydrographic surveys of Newcomb Bay by D'Arcy Thomas Gale (* 1911). The reef is named after the neighboring island. Its namesake is Arthur L. Kilby, photographer in the Central Task Group during the US Operation Windmill (1947–1948) and involved in the creation of aerial photographs of the Windmill Islands archipelago in January 1948.

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