McClintock Point

McClintock Point (77°33′S 163°40′E / 77.550°S 163.667°E / -77.550; 163.667Coordinates: 77°33′S 163°40′E / 77.550°S 163.667°E / -77.550; 163.667) is a point at the north side of the entrance to Explorers Cove, New Harbour, McMurdo Sound, on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1997 after James B. McClintock, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who studied the benthos of McMurdo Sound west of Ross Island and along the coast from Granite Harbour to Cape Chocolate, including extensive work in New Harbour in proximity to this point.^[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "McClintock Point" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).