Cape Wilkins is a rocky cape at the north tip of Fold Island

Fold Island

Fold Island is an offshore island north of Ives Tongue, 6 mi long and 3 mi wide, which, with smaller islands south, separate Stefansson Bay to the west from William Scoresby Bay to the east. This feature was seen by Discovery Investigations personnel on the RSS William Scoresby in February 1936,...

, forming the east side of the entrance to Stefansson Bay

Stefansson Bay

Stefansson Bay is a bay indenting the coast for 10 miles between Law Promontory and Fold Island. Mawson of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition applied the name to a sweep of the coast west of Cape Wilkins which he observed on about February 18, 1931...

. Discovered on February 18, 1931, by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson. Mapped in February 1936 by DI

Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...

 personnel on the William Scoresby

RRS William Scoresby

The RRS William Scoresby was an early-twentieth-century research vessel in the employ of the British scientific organisation, Discovery Investigations....

. It was remapped in greater detail from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. Mawson named this feature Cape Hearst in gratitude for the purchase of the news rights of BANZARE by the Hearst Press. Later he agreed to change the name to Cape Wilkins, the name used by subsequent expeditions.