Orton Reef

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Orton Reef
Waters Newcomb Bay
archipelago Windmill Islands
Geographical location 66 ° 16 ′  S , 110 ° 33 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 16 ′  S , 110 ° 33 ′  E
Orton Reef (Antarctica)
Orton Reef
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Orton Reef (lower half of the map)
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Orton Reef (lower half of the map)

The Orton Reef is a reef less than 1 m deep in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located half a mile north of Molholm Island in the northern section of Newcomb Bay .

The hydrographer D'Arcy Thomas Gale (* 1911) discovered and mapped it in February 1957. The Australian polar explorer Phillip Law explored it in 1962 with the ship Thala Dan as part of a campaign of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1961 to 1962 . It is named after Mervyn Noel Orton (1920–1983), a doctor on Wilkes Station , who was involved in the survey work in Newcomb Bay during this campaign.

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