Hull Point () is a low promontory on the northeast side of Legru Bay on King George Island in the

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, rising about above

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. It comprises a whale-back ridge aligned in a northwest–southeast orientation and is backed on the northeast side by a sandy beach. It was named for

Professor Edward Hull Edward Hull (21 May 1829 – 18 October 1917) was an Irish geologist and stratigrapher who held the position of Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. He was also a professor of geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. His dates ...

, LLD, FRS, FGS, a stratigrapher from

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, and a structural and economic geologist. He worked with the

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on the coalfields of

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and briefly in Scotland where he compiled outstanding drift maps of

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. He later became the director of the

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