Baker Point is a headland

Headland

A headland is a point of land, usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water.Headland can also refer to:*Headlands and bays*headLand, an Australian television series...

 at the south side of the entrance to Explorers Cove

Explorers Cove

Explorers Cove is a cove at the northwest head of New Harbour, Victoria Land, on the west side of McMurdo Sound, where the Taylor Valley hits the seashore. The name was applied by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1976 in recognition of the large number of explorers that have worked in the...

, New Harbour, McMurdo Sound

McMurdo Sound

The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km long and wide. The sound opens into the Ross Sea to the north. The Royal Society Range rises from sea level to 13,205 feet on the western shoreline. The nearby McMurdo Ice Shelf scribes McMurdo Sound's southern boundary...

, on Scott Coast

Scott Coast

Scott Coast is that portion of the coast of Victoria Land between Cape Washington and Minna Bluff. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy, leader of the Discovery expedition and the British Antarctic Expedition , who lost his...

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (1997) after Dr. Bill James Baker, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Florida Institute of Technology

Florida Institute of Technology

Florida Institute of Technology, also known as Florida Tech, is an independent private technical research university located in Melbourne, Florida, United States. Founded in 1958 as Brevard Engineering College, the institute has been known by its present name since 1966. Florida Tech's curriculum...

, Melbourne, Florida

Melbourne, Florida

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, who conducted underwater research in several areas of McMurdo Sound during the 1992–93, 1993–94 and 1996–97 field seasons, including work at Cape Evans

Cape Evans

Cape Evans is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay.The cape was discovered by the Discovery expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, who named it the Skuary. Scott's second expedition, the British Antarctic Expedition , built its...

, the Razorback Islands, Hutton Cliffs

Hutton Cliffs

Hutton Cliffs are cliffs on the west side of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island, about 2 nautical miles north of Ford Rock. Discovered by the Discovery expedition and named for Captain Hutton of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand....

, Arrival Heights

Arrival Heights

Arrival Heights are clifflike heights which extend in a northeast–southwest direction along the west side of Hut Point Peninsula, just north of Hut Point. They were discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott. The name suggests the...

, and New Harbor, the location of this point.