Martin Reef () is a reef awash, lying north of the coast of Antarctica and slightly west of

Cape Fletcher Cape Fletcher () is a minor projection of the ice-covered Antarctic coastline south of Martin Reef, midway between Strahan Glacier and Scullin Monolith. It was discovered by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929– ...

. This reef was apparently encountered by Captain Carl Sjovold in the Norwegian whale catcher ''Bouvet III'' in January 1931, and by the

British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, d ...

under

Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...

in February 1931. It was named by Mawson for the boatswain of the ''

Discovery Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discovery ...

''.

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Reefs of Antarctica Landforms of Mac. Robertson Land {{MacRobertsonLand-geo-stub