Ablation Point
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Ablation Point also known as Punta Ablación, is the east extremity of a hook-shaped rock ridge marking the north side of the entrance to Ablation Valley
Ablation Valley
Ablation Valley , also known as Ablation Bay, is a mainly ice-free valley on the east coast of Alexander Island, long, which is entered immediately south of Ablation Point and opens on George VI Sound. First photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth and mapped from these...

 on the east coast of Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

. First photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 and mapped from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg. Roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition
British Graham Land Expedition
A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) and resurveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by FIDS for nearby Ablation Valley.
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