Mabus Point is a cape on the Antarctic coast lying just south of Haswell Islands, marking the east limit of McDonald Bay. It was first charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911-14, under Douglas Mawson, and recharted by G.D. Blodgett in 1955 from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Highjump , 1946-47. The point was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander Howard W. Mabus, USN, executive officer of the icebreaker Edisto, who was instrumental in providing close support to U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Windmill parties in establishing astronomical control stations along this coast, 1947-48. Mabus Point subsequently became the site of the Soviet scientific station, Mirny.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mabus Point" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).