Keys Point

	Keys Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	77 ° 14 ′ S , 166 ° 22 ′ E Coordinates: 77 ° 14 ′ S , 166 ° 22 ′ E
location	Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica )
Waters	Ross Sea

The key point is a point of land in the northwest of the Antarctic Ross Island . At McDonald Beach , it juts 1.5 km northwest of Inclusion Hill into the Ross Sea .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 2000 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond of the Kyle New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro , New Mexico . It is named after the also New Zealand geochemist John R. Keys, who in the 1970s and 1980s as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program and of the United States Antarctic Research Program of research on the origin of mineral salts in the area of McMurdo Sound , and from Mount Erebus involved and determined the number, shape and size of icebergs in this region.

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