Kista skirt
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| Waters | Prydz Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 44 ′ S , 74 ° 24 ′ E | |
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The Kista skirt is a little island in the Prydz Bay East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . It is the southernmost of a chain of small islands off the Ingrid Christensen coast , which is 1.5 km north of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 , but left it unnamed. Scientists in a campaign as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) set it up as a fixed point for astronomical navigation in 1957 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1961 after the transport ship Kista Dan , which was in service with ANARE from 1954 to 1957.
Web links
- Kista rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kista Rock on geographic.org (English)