Gentile Point
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 7 ′ S , 160 ° 48 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| coast | Shackleton coast | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Gentile Point is an ice-covered headland at the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . As an extension of the Darley Hills, it protrudes about 13 km north of Cape Parr into the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cape in 1965 after Peter A. Gentile of the United States Navy , captain of the USNS Alatna in Operation Deep Freeze in 1961 and the USNS Chattahoochee , a tanker supplying McMurdo Station in Operation Deep Freeze in 1963.
Web links
- Gentile Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gentile Point on geographic.org (English)