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Kirkby Shoal
Submerged bank Kirkby Shoal (Antarctica)
Ocean	Southern Ocean
Archipelago	Windmill Islands
Minimum depth	18 m

Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with depths of less than 10 fathoms (18 m) extending about 150 yards (140 m) westwards and south-southwestwards, about 3.4 km (2.1 mi) from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands, and 0.15 mi (0.24 km) northwest 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 Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) on the Thala Dan, led by Phillip Law. It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia after Sydney L. Kirkby, a surveyor at Mawson Station in 1956 and 1960.

See also

• History of Antarctica
• List of Antarctic expeditions

References

1. ^ "Kirkby Shoal". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-05-03.

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

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Kirkby Shoal". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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