Cape Fiske is a cape which forms the east tip of Smith Peninsula

Smith Peninsula

Smith Peninsula is an ice-covered, "dog-legged" peninsula 25 nautical miles long and 10 nautical miles wide, extending in an easterly direction between Keller and Nantucket Inlets on the east coast of Palmer Land...

, on the east coast of Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

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Charting

This cape was photographed from the air by members of the US Antarctic Service (USAS) in December 1940, and in 1947 by members of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (RARE) under Ronne, who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) charted it from the ground.

It was named by Ronne for C.O. Fiske, a climatologist with the Ronne expedition.