Moe Point

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Moe Point ( 70°19′S62°23′W / 70.317°S 62.383°W / -70.317; -62.383 Coordinates: 70°19′S62°23′W / 70.317°S 62.383°W / -70.317; -62.383 ) is a point consisting of a small bare rock bluff, located just south of Croom Glacier on the northwest side of Smith Inlet, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1974, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Richard Moe, a United States Antarctic Research Program biologist at Palmer Station in 1974. [1]

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Croom Glacier is a steep, broad glacier flowing to the head of Smith Inlet between Moe Point and Hughes Ice Piedmont, on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1974, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for John M. Croom, who was a United States Antarctic Research Program biologist at Palmer Station in 1968–69 and a U.S. Exchange Scientist at the Soviet Bellingshausen Station in 1970.

Smith Inlet is an ice-filled inlet receding 28 kilometres (15 nmi) in a westerly direction between Cape Boggs and Cape Collier, along the east coast of Palmer Land. The inlet was discovered and charted in 1940 by the U.S. Antarctic Service, but it was later erroneously shown on charts as Stefansson Inlet. During 1947 the inlet was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition under Finn Ronne, who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey charted it from the ground. It was named by Ronne for Rear Admiral Edward H. Smith, USCG, noted Arctic oceanographer and explorer, leader of and later Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

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