Martin Reef
| Martin Reef | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 12 ′ S , 59 ° 44 ′ E | |
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The Martin Reef is an above flushed from the sea cliff 11 km before the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is a little west of Cape Fletcher .
The discovery of the reef goes back to the Norwegian whaling captain Carl Sjövold on board the Bouvet III in January 1931. Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson sighted it again in February 1931. Mawson named it after James Hamilton Martin (1899–1940), boatswain of his research vessel Discovery .
Web links
- Martin Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Martin Reef on geographic.org (English)