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==Discovery and name== | ==Discovery and name== | ||
It was mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and [[U.S. Navy]] air photos taken from 1959–65. The point was named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic | It was mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and [[U.S. Navy]] air photos taken from 1959–65. The point was named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names for Captain Frederick C. Melville, Master of the City of New York in voyages to the Bay of Whales during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition from 1928–30. | ||
==Life peerage== | ==Life peerage== | ||