Kay Island is a small island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) east of Cape Johnson

Cape Johnson

Cape Johnson is an ice-covered cape in northern Wood Bay at the east side of the terminus of Tinker Glacier, on the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy , who named it for Captain Edward John Johnson, RN....

 in the north part of Wood Bay

Wood Bay

Wood Bay is a large bay which is bounded by Cape Johnson and Aviator Glacier Tongue on the north and Cape Washington on the south, along the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy , and named by him for Lieutenant James F.L. Wood of the ship Erebus....

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross

James Clark Ross

Sir James Clark Ross , was a British naval officer and explorer. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica.-Arctic explorer:...

, Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

, 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.