
Fothergill Point
(Nordenskjöld Coast)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 64° 34' 27" S 60° 15' 49" W
NE of Cape Worsley, Nordenskjöld Coast, was roughly surveyed by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 and called Cabo Ruth; photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay', 1960-61; named after Ian Ledgard Fothergill (b. 1937), the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey meteorologist, 'Hope Bay', 1960-62 (Base Leader, 1961-62).