Pfrogner Point

	Pfrogner Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	72 ° 37 ′ S , 89 ° 35 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 37 ′ S , 89 ° 35 ′ W
location	Fletcher Peninsula , Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
coast	Eights Coast / Bryan Coast
Waters	Abbot Ice Shelf , Bellingshausen Lake

The Pfrogner Point is an ice-covered headland at the Bryan Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It is located at the northwest end of the Fletcher Peninsula and is partially enclosed by the Abbot Ice Shelf .

It was mapped by surveying work by the United States Geological Survey and with the help of aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1961 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Ray Long Pfrogner (* 1934), geomagnetologist and seismologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program at Byrd Station from 1961 to 1962.

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