Kitney Island
| Kitney Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Archipelago | Wiltshire Rocks | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 31 ′ S , 63 ° 4 ′ E | |
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Kitney Island is a small island off the Mawson coast of the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located 1.5 km east-northeast of Smith Rocks in Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 as part of the Spjotøyskjera (now known as Wiltshire Rocks ). Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions re- mapped it in 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Victor J. Kitney, a radio technician at Mawson Station in 1968.
Web links
- Kitney Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kitney Island on geographic.org (English)