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Casey Point () is a narrow rock spur separating Sheraton Glacier and Arriens Glacier in the Mawson Escarpment,
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aerial photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973, and named by the
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after J. N. Casey, (then) Assistant Director (Geology) of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australian Department of Minerals and Energy,
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* Headlands of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub