Penney Landing
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Penney Landing () is the only practical landing place toward the eastern end of the northern side of Ardery Island, in the
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 ...
. Discovered in 1959 by Richard L. Penney, biologist at
Wilkes Station Wilkes Station was an Antarctic research station established 29 January 1957 by the United States as one of seven U.S. stations established for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) program in Antarctica. It was taken over by Australia on ...
, for whom it was named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA).


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* Ports and harbours of Wilkes Land Landforms of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub