Kennicutt Point (74°30′00″S 165°29′00″E / 74.50000°S 165.48333°E) is the south entrance point of Wood Bay on the Borchgrevink Coast. The point is 9 nautical miles (17 km) north of Cape Washington. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2005 after Mahlon Kennicutt II, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University; United States Antarctic Program investigator of marine-habitat change in McMurdo Sound, near the McMurdo Station, and in Arthur Harbor in proximity of the Palmer Station for several summer seasons between 1990 and 2005.
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