Kusunoki Point

Kusunoki Point (65°33′S 65°59′W / 65.550°S 65.983°W / -65.550; -65.983Coordinates: 65°33′S 65°59′W / 65.550°S 65.983°W / -65.550; -65.983) is a point on the west coast and near the north end of Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd, 1956–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Kou Kusunoki, a Japanese sea ice specialist at Hokkaido University, and from 1966 with the National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo.^[1]

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