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[[File:Tucker Point.png|350px|thumb|Map of the Murray Foreland showing Tucker Point]]
'''Tucker Point''' (73°57′S 114°49′W) is an [[ice]]-covered point on the west side of Murray Foreland of the [[Martin Peninsula]]. It is located 12 nautical miles (22 km) southwest of Cape Herlacher, on the [[Bakutis Coast]] of [[Westarctica]].

==Discovery and name==
The point was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and from [[U.S. Navy]] aerial photographs taken during the years 1959-67. Tucker Point was named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names in 1977 in honor of Robert L. Tucker, a United States Navy meteorologist on nine deployments of Operation Deepfreeze during the 1976 research seasons.

==Peerage title==
On 11 October 2019, Dirk Heldmann was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica|peerage title]] Viscount of Tucker in recognition of his support of Westarctica.

[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]

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