Kirkby Shoal is a small

shoal In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. It ...

area with depths of less than extending about westwards and south-southwestwards, about from the summit of

Shirley Island Shirley Island is a rocky island lying north-west of the western end of the Bailey Peninsula, in the Windmill Islands of the Budd Coast, Wilkes Land, Antarctica. It is mostly ice-free with undulating, rocky terrain. It was first mapped from ae ...

Windmill Islands The Windmill Islands are an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks about wide, paralleling the coast of Wilkes Land for immediately north of Vanderford Glacier along the east side of Vincennes Bay. Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with de ...

, and northwest of

Stonehocker Point Clark Peninsula is a rocky peninsula, about long and wide, lying north-east of Australia's Casey Station at the north side of Newcomb Bay on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica. History The peninsula was first mapped from aerial pho ...

Clark Peninsula Clark Peninsula is a rocky peninsula, about long and wide, lying north-east of Australia's Casey Station at the north side of Newcomb Bay on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica. History The peninsula was first mapped from aerial phot ...

Discovery and naming

Kirkby Shoal was discovered and charted in 1962 during a hydrographic survey of

Newcomb Bay Newcomb Bay is a sheltered bay about 1 mile (1.6 km) in extent, between Clark Peninsula and Bailey Peninsula in the Windmill Islands area. First mapped from U.S. Navy Operation Highjump aerial photographs taken in February 1947. In Februar ...

and approaches by d'A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the

Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). History Australia has had a long involv ...

(ANARE) on the ''

Thala Dan Thala may refer to: Places * Thala Hills, Antarctica * Thala Island, Antarctica * Thala Rock, Antarctica * Thala, Tunisia, a town in Kasserine Governorate Other uses * ''Thala'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails * Ajith Kumar (born 197 ...

'', led by

Phillip Law Phillip Garth Law, AC, CBE, FAA, FTSE (21 April 1912 – 28 February 2010) was an Australian scientist and explorer who served as director of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) from 1949 to 1966. Early life Law was ...

. It was named by the

Antarctic Names Committee of Australia The Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee (AANMC) was established to advise the Government on names for features in the Australian Antarctic Territory and the subantarctic territory of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands. The committee ...

after

Sydney L. Kirkby Sydney Lorrimar Kirkby, (born 1933) is an Australian surveyor and Antarctic explorer. Work Syd Kirkby was first appointed as Surveyor at Mawson Station for 1956, the third year of ANARE operations in Antarctica. Syd Kirkby was Surveyor and/or ...

, a surveyor at

Mawson Station The Mawson Station, commonly called Mawson, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Mawson lies in Holme Bay in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica in the Austra ...

in 1956 and 1960.

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Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee (AANMC)

Australian Antarctic Gazetteer

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

PDF Map of the Australian Antarctic Territory

Mawson Station
Shoals of Antarctica Landforms of the Southern Ocean Barrier islands of Antarctica Windmill Islands {{WilkesLand-geo-stub

Discovery and naming

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