Mabus Point
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 33 ′ S , 93 ° 1 ′ E | |
| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Davissee | |
| Waters 2 | McDonald Bay | |
The Mabus Point is a headland on the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie-country . It is the seaward end of the Mirny Peninsula immediately south of the Haswell Islands and marks the eastern boundary of the entrance to McDonald Bay . The headland is the location of the Mirny station .
The team from the west base of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson mapped them for the first time. A new mapping was carried out in 1955 by the American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1955 after Lieutenant Commander Howard William Mabus (1907-1991), officer on board the icebreaker USS Edisto for the establishment of astronomical observation stations along this coast as part of Operation Windmill (1947-1948).
Web links
- Mabus Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mabus Point on geographic.org (English)