Fothergill Point
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Fothergill Point is a low rocky coastal point 6.6 miles (10.6 km) northeast of Cape Worsley
, on Nordenskjöld Coast
in Graham Land
, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Ian L. Fothergill, leader and meteorological assistant at the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) station at Hope Bay
, 1959-63.
Cape Worsley
Cape Worsley is a dome-shaped cape 225 m high with snow-free cliffs on the south and east sides, lying 10 nautical miles east of the south end of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and named for Commander...
, on Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjold Coast
Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...
in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Ian L. Fothergill, leader and meteorological assistant at the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) station at Hope Bay
Hope Bay
Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....
, 1959-63.