Garcia Point
| Garcia Point | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 14 ′ S , 170 ° 16 ′ W | |
The Garcia Point is a prominent point of land in the form of a ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it is located on the southern flank of the mouth of the DeGanahl Glacier in the Liv Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the meteorologist Leopoldo Garcia, who worked at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as part of the United States Antarctic Program in the Antarctic winter of 1965 .
Web links
- Garcia Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Garcia Point on geographic.org (English)