Penney Ravine
| Penney Ravine | ||
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| location | Ardery Island , Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Penney Ravine is a small canyon on Ardery Island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located on the north side of the island west of its center.
A team of biologists at Wilkes Station discovered them in February 1960. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them after the American biologist Richard Lee Penney (1935-1993), who worked at Wilkes Station from 1959 to 1960.
Web links
- Penney Ravine in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Penney Ravine on geographic.org (English)