Fold Island, also known as Foldøya is an offshore island north of

Ives Tongue Ives Tongue is a narrow tongue of land projecting from an island between Fold Island and the coast of Kemp Land Kemp Land is a thin sliver of Antarctica including, and lying inland from, the Kemp Coast. Part of the Australian Antarctic Territory ...

, long and wide, which, with smaller islands south, separate Stefansson Bay to the west from

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

to the east. This feature was seen by

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 ...

(DI) 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 Lars is a common male name in Scandinavian countries. Origin ''Lars'' means "from the city of Laurentum". Lars is derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel". A homonymous Etruscan name was ...

(LCE) in January–February 1937. Cape Wilkins is a rocky cape at the north tip of Fold Island, forming the east side of the entrance to Stefansson Bay. Discovered on February 18, 1931, by the

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(BANZARE) under

Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader duri ...

. Mawson named this feature Cape Hearst in gratitude for the purchase of the news rights of BANZARE by the

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. It was mapped again in February 1936 by DI personnel, then remapped in greater detail from LCE air photos. Mawson later agreed to change the name to Cape Wilkins, the name used by subsequent expeditions. Green Point is a rocky point forming the eastern extremity of Fold Island, at the west side of the entrance to

, Antarctica. It was discovered and named by DI personnel. Mount Whiteside is a low, conical peak, high, surmounting the east extremity of Fold Island. Nearby islands include Keel Island, McCarthy Island, the Tillett Islands, and

Transverse Island Transverse Island () is an island between Fold Island and Keel Island on the east side of Stefansson Bay, off the coast of Enderby Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and ...

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