Kirsty Island
| Lagoon Island | ||
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| Waters | Ryder Bay | |
| Archipelago | Léonie Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 36 ′ S , 68 ° 16 ′ W | |
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Kirsty Island is a small island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It belongs to the Léonie Islands and is located in the entrance to Ryder Bay between Léonie Island in the west and Lagoon Island in the east.
Aerial photographs were taken during the expedition undertaken by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1957. It served the scientists of the Rothera station as a place for marine biological studies. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on September 29, 2004 after the British marine biologist Kirsty Margot Brown (1974-2003), who was killed by a leopard seal on July 22, 2003 while diving near the Rothera station .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 411 and 859 (English).
Web links
- Kirsty Island in the Australian Antarctic Data Center database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirsty Margot Brown in the Find a Grave database (accessed June 5, 2016).
- ↑ Kirsty M. Brown. ( Memento of June 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Obituary on the British Antarctic Monument Trust website (accessed June 5, 2016).