Macleod Point
| Macleod Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 5 ′ S , 61 ° 58 ′ W | |
| location | Liège Island , Palmer Archipelago , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters | Southern ocean | |
The Macleod Point is a headland , the south-eastern end of the island Liège Iceland in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago marked.
The headland is not yet named for the first time on an Argentine map from 1957. Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957 were used in 1959 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for a new mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Scottish-Canadian physiologist John James Rickard Macleod (1876-1935), the co-discoverer of insulin .
Web links
- Macleod Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Macleod Point on geographic.org (English)