Macleod Point () is a point forming the southeastern tip of

Liège Island Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, long and wide, lying immediately northeast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, and separated from Hoseason Island and Christiania Islands to the northeast by Croker Passage ...

, in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...

, Antarctica. It was shown on an Argentine government chart in 1957, but not named. The point was photographed from the air by

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in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the

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in 1959. It was named by the

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for John Macleod, a Scottish physiologist who was one of the discoverers of

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in 1922.

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Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago Liège Island {{LiegeIsland-geo-stub