Kay Islet (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kay Islet (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of islets in the Ross Sea lying off Victoria Land, about 19 miles eastward of Cape Sibbald. The eastern islet is high and very steep, the western is low and small. Discovered in 1841 by Ross and named for Lieutenant Joseph W Kay, Director of the Rossbank Observatory. Ross considered this group to contain three islets, but only two were seen in 1924.
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