Kirkby Shoal


Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with depths of less than extending about westwards and south-southwestwards, about from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands, and northwest of Stonehocker Point, Clark Peninsula.

Discovery and naming

Kirkby Shoal was discovered and charted in 1962 during a hydrographic survey of Newcomb Bay and approaches by d'A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition on the Thala Dan, led by Phillip Law. It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia after Sydney L. Kirkby, a surveyor at Mawson Station in 1956 and 1960.