Kirton Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kirton Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A small coastal island off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 7 km west of Cape Daly. The island is the southern of two islands about 30 m above sea level. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The island was first visited by an ANARE party from Mawson in July, 1959. Named after M. Kirton, geophysicist at Mawson in 1959.
M. Kirton, geophysicist at Mawson in 1959
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