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
Robert Hooke FRS (; 18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover microorganisms in 1665 using a compound microscope that ...
, an English experimental physicist and author of ''
Micrographia'', which contains one of the earliest known descriptions of ice crystals.
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References
Headlands of Graham Land
Loubet Coast
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