Cape Fletcher
| Cape Fletcher | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 41 ′ S , 65 ° 35 ′ E | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Mawson Coast | |
| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
Cape Fletcher is a small cape on the icy Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located south of the Martin Reef , halfway between the Strahan Glacier and the Scullin Monolith .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the leadership of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered and named it. It is named after Harold Oswald Fletcher (1903–1996), assistant biologist on this research trip.
Web links
- Cape Fletcher in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Fletcher on geographic.org (English)