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This page presents the geographical name data for
Kay Island in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Feature Name
(see definition):
Kay Island
Feature Class
(see definition):
Island
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
7795
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
74° 04' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
165° 19' 00" E
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-74.0666667
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
165.3166667
Elevation
(see definition):
No data
Decision Year
(see definition):
01/01/1966
Description
(see definition):
A small island lying 2 mi E of Cape Johnson in the N part of Wood Bay, Victoria Land. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy (RN), and named by him for Lieutenant Joseph W. Kay, Dir. of the Rossbank Observatory in Tasmania, who was third lieutenant on the ship Terror. Originally charted by Ross as a group of three islands, only this one is now known to exist.
Date Created
(see definition):
No data
Date Edited
(see definition):
No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Kay Island in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of
Kay Island information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Kay Island should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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