Cape Bickerton is an ice-covered point 5 nautical miles (9 km) east-northeast of Gravenoire Rock

Gravenoire Rock

Gravenoire Rock is a small rock outcrop about 1 nautical mile southeast of Rock X, protruding above the coastal ice at the east side of Victor Bay. Photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47...

 which marks the north extremity of the coastal area close east of Victor Bay

Victor Bay

Victor Bay is a bay about 16 nautical miles wide and 7 nautical miles long, indenting the coast between Pourquoi Pas Point and Mathieu Rock, Antarctica. The bay is marked by an extensive chain of icebergs breaking away from the high tongue of Commandant Charcot Glacier. It was delineated from...

. Charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition

Australasian Antarctic Expedition

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australasian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, who was knighted for his achievements in leading the expedition. In 1910 he began to plan an expedition to chart...

 under Mawson, 1911-14, and named by him for F. H. Bickerton

Francis Howard Bickerton

Treasure-hunter, Antarctic explorer, soldier, aeronaut, entrepreneur, big-game hunter and movie-maker, Francis Howard Bickerton not only made a major contribution to the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14 but was also recruited for Sir Ernest Shackleton's "Endurance" Expedition; he fought...

, engineer of the expedition and leader of the Western Party which sighted the cape from its farthest west camp.