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Ackley Point

Coordinates: 77°47′S 166°55′E / 77.783°S 166.917°E / -77.783; 166.917
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Ackley Point (77°47′S 166°55′E / 77.783°S 166.917°E / -77.783; 166.917) is an ice-covered point 1 mile (2 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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