Kirkby Shoal
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| Waters 1 | Newcomb Bay | |
Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located in about 18 m water depth at a distance of 250 m northwest of Stonehocker Point on the Clark Peninsula .
A team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions under the direction of the hydrograph D'Arcy Thomas Gale (* 1911) mapped it in 1962 while surveying Newcomb Bay . It is named after the Australian geodesist Sydney Lorrimar Kirkby (* 1933), who was involved in these surveys.
Web links
- Kirkby Shoal in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kirkby Shoal on geographic.org (English)