Hooke Point
Hooke Point is a point near the head of Lallemand Fjord, in Graham Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and air photos, 1946–59, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert Hooke, an English experimental physicist and author of Micrographia, which contains one of the earliest known descriptions of ice crystals.Hooke Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: Point in Graham Land, Antarctica
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.19008° or 67° 11' 24" southLongitude
-66.7125° or 66° 42' 45" westOpen Location Code
374MR75P+XXGeoNames ID
6635103Wikidata ID
Q1099547Hooke Point Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Cebuano: Hooke
- Chinese: 胡克角
- Dutch: Hooke
- English: Hooke
- German: Hooke Point
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Hooke Point
- Swedish: Hooke
- Swedish: Hooke Point
- Hooke, punta
Landmarks in the Area
- Humphreys Ice Rise8 km southwest
- Müller Ice Shelf10 km southwest
- Bartholin PeakPeak, 10 km south
- Bentley CragHill, 13 km southwest
- Alejandro Álvarez, PuntaCape, 14 km northeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Hooke Point. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.