Macleod Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Macleod Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
SE point of Liège Island, Palmer Archipelago, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of medicine grouped in this area, named after John James Rickard Macleod (1876-1935), Scottish physiologist; Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto, 1918-28, who with Sir Frederick Banting and Dr C.H. Best discovered insulin in 1922; Nobel Laureate in medicine, 1923; Regius Professor of Physiology, University of Aberdeen, 1928-35 (APC, 1960, p.6; BA chart, 3560, 7.iv.1961).
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