Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Mabus Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mabus Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point (8)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A point on the coast lying just south of Haswell Islands, marking the east limit of McDonald Bay. First charted by the AAE, 1911-14, under Douglas Mawson. Recharted by G.D. Blodgett in 1955 from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Howard W. Mabus, USN, executive officer of the icebreaker Edisto, who was instrumental in providing close support to USN Operation Windmill parties in establishing astronomical control stations along this coast, 1947-48. Mabus Point subsequently became the site of the Soviet scientific station, Mirnyy.
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