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, an English experimental physicist and author of Micrographia, which contains one of the earliest known descriptions of ice crystals.
[1] This article incorporates public domain material from "Hooke Point".
Geographic Names Information System.
United States Geological Survey.
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