Fold Island is an offshore 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...

 north of Ives Tongue

Ives Tongue

Ives Tongue is a narrow tongue of land projecting from an island between Fold Island and the coast of Kemp Land. Discovered and named in February 1936 by the Discovery Investigations expedition on RSS William Scoresby....

, 6 mi long and 3 mi wide, which, with smaller islands south, separate 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...

 to the west from William Scoresby Bay

William Scoresby Bay

William Scoresby Bay is a coastal embayment at the western side of William Scoresby Archipelago, Antarctica. It is 5 mi long and 3.5 mi wide, with shores marked by steep rock headlands and snow-free hills rising to 210 m. The practical limits of the bay are extended 4 mi northward from the coast by...

 to the east. This feature was seen by Discovery Investigations

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 RSS William Scoresby in February 1936, who mapped it as part of the mainland. It was determined to be an island and named Foldøya by Norwegian cartographers who charted this area from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition in January-February 1937.