McCarthy Point
| McCarthy Point | ||
 Topographic map of Grant Island with McCarthy Point (right) |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 25 ′ S , 130 ° 59 ′ W | |
| location | Grant Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Getz Ice Shelf | |
| Waters 2 | Ledda Bay | |
The McCarthy Point is an icy headland that the northeastern foothills of Grant Iceland before the Hobbs Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands marked. It represents the eastern boundary of Ledda Bay .
The headland was discovered and mapped in February 1962 aboard the icebreaker USS Glacier under Captain Edwin Anderson McDonald (1907–1988). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named her in 1966 after Lieutenant J. F. McCarthy, paymaster on the USS Glacier at the time.
Web links
- McCarthy Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCarthy Point on geographic.org (English)