Merrick Point

Merrick Point (74°28′S 110°9′W / 74.467°S 110.150°W / -74.467; -110.150Coordinates: 74°28′S 110°9′W / 74.467°S 110.150°W / -74.467; -110.150) is an ice-covered point on the east side of Hamilton Ice Piedmont, Bear Peninsula, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1977 after Dale Merrick of Stanford University, upper atmosphere researcher and Station Scientific Leader at Siple Station, winter party 1975.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Merrick Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

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