Name details

Kerry Island

Kerry Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Kerry Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 136799

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

Named for Dr. Knowles Kerry, (retired Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division), one of the dominant figures for the present Australian Antarctic biology program and the "father" of the Marine Biology Program, one of the main proponents of the "ecosystem approach" to management of the Antarctic region that is now included in the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), initial chairman of the Working Group on the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring program (CEMP), leader and Chief Scientist of the BIOMASS (FIBEX) program, leader and chief scientist on numerous ANARE voyages, co-author and editor on several Antarctic books and films and recipient of the Antarctic Polar Medal (1993).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 35' 52.0" S
-67.59778°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
62° 46' 35.0" E
62.77639°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
16 m
Accurate to 5m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Name of data: Holme Bay 1:25,000 GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
1:10000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Aerial photography ANTC1025 Run 1 Frame 77

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
29-Apr-2009

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