Kirkby Shoal

Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with depths of less than 18 meters (59 ft) extending about 140 meters (459 ft) westwards and SSW, about 3.4 km (2.1 mi) from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands, and 0.24 km (0.15 mi) NW of Stonehocker Point, Clark Peninsula.

Discovery and naming

Kirkby Shoal was discovered and charted in 1962 during a hydrographic survey of Newcomb Bay and approaches by d'A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan, led by Phillip Law. Named by ANCA after Sydney L. Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson Station in 1956 and 1960.^[1]

See also

• History of Antarctica
• List of Antarctic expeditions

References

"Kirkby Shoal". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:7991. Retrieved 31 May 2010. 

External links

• Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee (AANMC)
• Australian Antarctic Gazetteer
• United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• PDF Map of the Australian Antarctic Territory
• Mawson Station

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Kirkby Shoal" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).