Eskimo Point
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Eisenhower Range | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Hochtour glaciated | |
The Eskimo Point is a steilwandiger ledge with flattened peaks crown in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the east side of the Eisenhower Range and forms the north face of O'Kane Canyon .
The southern group of the 1962 to 1963 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it so because the participants, like Eskimos, built an igloo to camp in during a whiteout .
Web links
- Eskimo Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eskimo Point on geographic.org (English)