McClintock Point
| McClintock Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ′ S , 163 ° 40 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Scott coast | |
| Waters | Explorers Cove | |
| Waters 2 | New Harbor | |
The McClintock Point is a headland at the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is on the north side of the entrance to Explorers Cove in New Harbor .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1997 after the biologist James B. McClintock (1965–1987) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham , who found the benthos of McMurdo Sound west of Ross Island and along the coast from Granite Harbor to Cape Chocolate had examined.
Web links
- McClintock Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McClintock Point on geographic.org (English)