Palmer Point


Palmer Point is a rock point on the coast of Antarctica, about 2 nautical miles west of Strover Peak and 8 nautical miles west-northwest of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. Photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47. Visited by I.R. McLeod, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party, 1969. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for J. Palmer, helicopter pilot with ANARE in 1968.