Fletcher Island is a rocky

Rock (geology)

In geology, rock or stone is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock. In general rocks are of three types, namely, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic...

 island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

, 0.25 mile (0.402335 km) in diameter, which is the largest of the Fletcher Islands

Fletcher Islands

The Fletcher Islands are a small group of islands lying west-southwest of Cape Gray in the eastern part of Commonwealth Bay. The Fletcher Islands are located at . The Fletcher Islands were discovered by the Australian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who gave the name Fletcher to...

. Fletcher Island is located at 66°53′S 143°05′E. Fletcher Island lies in the eastern part of Commonwealth Bay

Commonwealth Bay

Commonwealth Bay is an open bay about 48 km wide at the entrance between Point Alden and Cape Gray in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who established the main base of the expedition at Cape Denison at the head of the bay...

, 6 miles (9.7 km) west-southwest (WSW) of Cape Gray

Cape Gray

Cape Gray is a rocky cape which forms the east side of the entrance to Commonwealth Bay, part of the George V Coast of Antarctica. The cape is actually a small rocky island which is joined to the icecap of the mainland by an ice ramp...

. Fletcher Island was discovered by the Australian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) (1911–1914) under Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

, who named it for Frank D. Fletcher

Frank D. Fletcher

Frank D. Fletcher was a sailor, mainly known for his time as Chief Officer of the SY Aurora during the 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, under Captain John King Davis. Fletcher replaced N. C. Toutcher—who had been Chief Officer during Auroras first voyage of the expedition—for the second...

, First Officer

Chief Mate

A Chief Mate or Chief Officer, usually also synonymous with the First Mate or First Officer , is a licensed member and head of the deck department of a merchant ship...

 on the expedition ship Aurora

Aurora (ship)

SY Aurora was a steam yacht built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd. shipbuilders in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1876, for the Dundee Seal and Whale Fishing Company. Her primary use was whaling in the northern seas, and she was built sturdily enough to withstand the heavy weather and ice that would be...

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See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• Fletcher Islands
  Fletcher Islands
  The Fletcher Islands are a small group of islands lying west-southwest of Cape Gray in the eastern part of Commonwealth Bay. The Fletcher Islands are located at . The Fletcher Islands were discovered by the Australian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who gave the name Fletcher to...
  
  
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
  Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
  The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research is an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science . It was established in February 1958 to continue the international coordination of Antarctic scientific activities that had begun during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58...
  
  
• Territorial claims in Antarctica