Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Kidson Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kidson 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:
An island about 28 km NNE of Colbeck Archipelago off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 18 February, 1931, by BANZARE (1929 31) under Sir Douglas Mawson.
Named after Dr. E. Kidson, Chief of the New Zealand Weather Bureau at the time of the expedition.
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