Ackley Point
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 47 ′ S , 166 ° 55 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf , Ross Sea | |
The Ackley Point is an icy cape on the Antarctic Ross Island . It is located 1.5 km southeast of Cone Hill on the east side of the Hut Point Peninsula and is enclosed by the Ross Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 2000 after Stephen Fred Ackley (1944), employees of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory of the United States Navy as, the 25-year sea ice specialist at the McMurdo station and other parts of the Southern Ocean worked was. The name Sheppard Point after Deirdre Jeanette Sheppard, librarian of the New Zealand Antarctic Division , did not catch on .
Web links
- Ackley Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ackley Point on geographic.org (English)