Ackley Point

Ackley Point

Ackley Point (coord|77|47|S|166|55|E|) is an ice-covered point 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Cone Hill on the east side of Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 2000 after Stephen F. Ackley, Snow and Ice Division, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Hanover, New Hampshire, a United States Antarctic Program (USAP) sea ice specialist who worked in McMurdo Sound and diverse parts of the Southern Ocean for more than 25 years, dating from the 1976-77 austral season.


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