COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

A large ice rise, 100 mi long and 40 mi wide, at the southwest side of Ronne Ice Shelf. The feature is completely ice covered and rises between Rutford Ice Stream and Carlson Inlet. The ice rise was observed, photographed and roughly sketched by Lt. Ronald F. Carlson, USN, in the course of a C-130 aircraft flight of Dec. 14-15, 1961 from McMurdo Sound to this vicinity and return. Mapped in detail by USGS from Landsat imagery taken 1973-74. Named by US-ACAN for Joseph O. Fletcher, director of the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1971-74.

W side of Ronne Ice shelf between Carlson Inlet and Rutford Ice Stream, its SE part only lying within BAT, was seen from the air on a US LC-130 aircraft flight from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to "Eights Station" across Ellsworth Mountains, 14-15 December 1961; traversed on a radio echo-sounding flight by BAS from "Siple Station", Marie Byrd Land, in January 1975 and mapped as a peninsula rather than an ice rise (Swithinbank and others, 1976, Fig. 3, p.297); later mapped by USGS from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1974 and named Fletcher Ice Rise after Dr Joseph Otis Fletcher (b. 1920), Director, Office of Polar Programs, USNSF, 1971-74; former Colonel, USAF, who in 1952 piloted the C-47 aircraft that made the first landing on the ice island T-3 near the North Pole (USGS satellite image map Ellsworth Mountains, 1976; Alberts, 1977, p.42). Fletcher Peninsula (APC, 1980, p. 3; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981). Fletcher Promontory (APC, 1982, p.3; Drewry, 1983, Map 2.1).