Cape Hodgson

	Cape Hodgson
	; Map of Black Island (top right) with Cape Hogson
	Geographical location
Coordinates	78 ° 7 ′ S , 166 ° 5 ′ E Coordinates: 78 ° 7 ′ S , 166 ° 5 ′ E
location	Black Island , Ross Archipelago , Antarctica
Waters	Ross Ice Shelf

Cape Hodgson is the northern cape of Black Island in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It is located immediately northeast of Mount Melania .

Participants in a campaign run from 1958 to 1959 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it. It is named after Thomas Vere Hodgson (1864–1926), biologist on the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who shared the island with the expedition doctor Reginald Koettlitz , the geologist Hartley Ferrar and the physicist Louis Bernacchi had visited.

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