MacMillan Point

MacMillan Point (

77°55′S 164°34′E / 77.917°S 164.567°E / -77.917; 164.567Coordinates: 77°55′S 164°34′E / 77.917°S 164.567°E / -77.917; 164.567) is an ice-free point, 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) north of Cape Chocolate, forming the north side of the entrance to Salmon Bay, on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named in 1992 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after of San Jose, California, a research assistant in the U.S. Antarctic Program who lost his life in a diving accident at New Harbour, McMurdo Sound, on November 14, 1987. A graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz and a diver, he was in a group collecting Foraminifera from the sea at the time of the accident.^[1]

References[]

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