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Greenstone Point () is a high rock spur along the north front of the
Jones Mountains The Jones Mountains are an isolated group of mountains, trending generally east–west for 43 km (27 mi), situated on the Eights Coast, Ellsworth Land, about 80 km (50 mi) south of Dustin Island in Antarctica. The charts of t ...
of Antarctica, immediately east of
Austin Valley Austin Valley is a small ice-filled valley at the east side of Avalanche Ridge, in the Jones Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the University of Minnesota Jones Mountains Party, 1960–61, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarc ...
. It was mapped by the
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
– Jones Mountains Party, 1960–61, and so named by them because of the greenish color of the rock.


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