Kidson Island is an island long, lying north-northeast of

Byrd Head Byrd Head is a conspicuous, rocky headland on the Mawson Coast 1 mi southeast of Colbeck Archipelago, just west of Howard Bay. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Doug ...

, Antarctica. It was discovered in February 1931 by the

British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, dr ...

under

Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader durin ...

, and named by him for

Edward Kidson Edward Kidson (12 March 1882 – 12 June 1939) was a New Zealand meteorologist and scientific administrator. Early life and education Kidson was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, England, on 12 March 1882. his family moved to Nelson, New Zea ...

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Islands of Mac. Robertson Land {{MacRobertsonLand-geo-stub

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