Name StatusOfficial ValidatedFeatureIslandNZ Gazette Reference2012 (53) p.1477DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionAn island at the head of Beardmore Glacier, near Mt Darwin, which divides the glavier into two streams. There are three peaks on the island and it is almost free from snow, though there is a small tributary glacier flowing gently down its eastern slope. It was on this island that Wild discovered coal in 1908. The island was discovered by the South Polar Party of the BAE, 1907-09, on 16 December 1908 and named for Shackleton for his New Zealand friend, George Buckley, a sheep farmer, of Ashburton, who went in the Nimrod as far as the pack-ice, where he was transferred by whale-boat to the koonya and returned to New Zealand.
