MacMillan Point
| MacMillan Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 55 ′ S , 164 ° 34 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Scott coast | |
| Waters | McMurdo Sound | |
| Waters 2 | Salmon Bay | |
The MacMillan Point is an ice-free headland on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 2.5 km north of Cape Chocolate and forms the north side of the entrance to Salmon Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1992 after Mark T. MacMillan (1965-1987) of the University of California, Santa Cruz , who died on November 14, 1987 in a diving accident in the New Harbor .
Web links
- MacMillan Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- MacMillan Point on geographic.org (English)