Dyer Point
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ S , 100 ° 37 ′ W | |
| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Dyer Point is an ice-covered headland just west of Hughes Peninsula on the north coast of the West Antarctic Thurston Island .
An initial mapping was based on aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in December 1946 during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1960 after John Newton Dyer (1910-1996), radio engineer on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Dyer Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dyer Point on geographic.org (English)