Kirkby Head

Kirkby Head is a sheer coastal outcrop on Tange Promontory, Enderby Land, Australian Antarctic Territory. Continental ice reaches almost to the top on its southern side. It is located at the east side of the entrance to Alasheyev Bight.^[1]

Discovery and naming

Kirkby Head was plotted from air photographs taken from an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) aircraft in 1956, and was first visited by an ANARE party led by Sydney L. Kirkby in November, 1960. It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia after Kirkby, who was a surveyor at Mawson Station in 1956 and 1960.^[1]

See also

• History of Antarctica
• List of Antarctic expeditions

References

External links

• Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee (AANMC)
• Australian Antarctic Gazetteer
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• PDF Map of the Australian Antarctic Territory
• Mawson Station

Coordinates: 67°17′S 46°29′E / 67.283°S 46.483°E / -67.283; 46.483  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Kirkby Head" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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