McClintock Point
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McClintock Point () is a point at the north side of the entrance to Explorers Cove, New Harbor, McMurdo Sound, on Scott Coast, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after James B. McClintock, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, who studied the benthos of McMurdo Sound west of Ross Island and along the coast from Granite Harbor to Cape Chocolate, including extensive work in New Harbor in proximity to this point.
This article incorporates text from McClintock Point, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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