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Coordinates: 67°36′S 68°16′W / 67.600°S 68.267°W

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Kirsty Island
Geography
Kirsty Island Location in Antarctica
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	67°36′S 68°16′W / 67.600°S 68.267°W / -67.600; -68.267
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Kirsty Island is an island in Ryder Bay, west of Lagoon Island and East of Léonie Island.^[1] It has outcrops of reddish rocks and is used by scientists at Rothera Research Station as a site for marine research and recreation. It is named for Kirsty Brown, a marine biologist with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who died whilst snorkelling at Rothera Station in July 2003.^[2]

References

^ "Kirsty Island". data.aad.gov.au. Australian Antarctic Data centre. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
^ "Kirsty M Brown". www.antarctic-monument.org. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

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Islands	Amiot Islands Anchorage Island Avian Island Brockhamp Islands Chatos Islands Cono Island Dion Islands Embassy Islands Esplin Islands Ginger Islands Guébriant Islands Henkes Islands Jenny Island Killingbeck Island Kirsty Island Koechlin Island Lagoon Island Léonie Island Léonie Islands Limpet Island Mikkelsen Islands Rigsby Islands Rocca Islands Sillard Islands Solitario Island Sorge Island Steinemann Island Ward Islands Webb Island
Reefs and banks	Box Reef Consul Reef Cox Reef Cumbers Reef Ives Bank Jennings Reef Lord Bank Regent Reef
Rocks	Cavalier Rock Cenobite Rocks Envoy Rock Fitton Rock Fullastern Rock Glover Rocks Hibbert Rock Launch Rock League Rock Mission Rock Nueva Rock Outlaw Rock Patience Rocks Skeen Rocks Sorpresa Rock
Straits	Barlas Channel Buchanan Passage Cole Channel Crosse Passage Elliott Passage The Gullet Johnston Passage Matha Strait Quest Channel Tickle Channel Woodfield Channel

v t e West Antarctica
Areas	Antarctic Peninsula Graham Land Palmer Land Ellsworth Land English Coast Bryan Coast Eights Coast King Edward VII Land Shirase Coast Marie Byrd Land Walgreen Coast Bakutis Coast Hobbs Coast Ruppert Coast Saunders Coast Queen Elizabeth Land
Major ice shelves	Abbot Ice Shelf Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf Getz Ice Shelf Larsen Ice Shelf Ross Ice Shelf Sulzberger Ice Shelf
Seas and major islands	Amundsen Sea Dean Island Grant Island Siple Island Bellingshausen Sea Adelaide Island Alexander Island Latady Island Rothschild Island Sherman Island Smyley Island Spaatz Island Thurston Island Ross Sea Ross Island Scotia Sea Southern Ocean Anvers Island Brabant Island Charcot Island Coronation Island D'Urville Island Elephant Island Joinville Island King George Island Livingston Island Renaud Island Weddell Sea James Ross Island Hearst Island

Antarctica

Geography

Regions	Biogeographic realm Antarctic Peninsula East Antarctica ice sheet shield Extreme points Floristic Kingdom Islands South Pole South magnetic pole West Antarctica ice sheet
Bodies of Water	Antarctic/Southern Ocean Lake CECs Lake Mercer Lake Vostok List of rivers McMurdo Sound Ross Sea Weddell Sea
Life	Flora Microorganisms Wildlife Birds Mammals Krill

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