Springtail Point

Springtail Point
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height	1728 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Clare Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E

The Springtail Point (English for springtail tip ) is a 1728 m high mountain in the shape of a headland in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Clare Range, it rises 5 km north of Skew Peak south of the head end of the Mackay Glacier .

The Austrian biologist Heinz Janetschek (1913–1997), who worked at the McMurdo station from 1961 to 1962 , named it after the arthropods from the springtail class ( Latin: Collembola ) found here.

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