Mothes Point is a point 7 nautical miles (13 km) southwest of The Gullet

The Gullet

The Gullet is a narrow channel between the east extremity of Adelaide Island and the west coast of Graham Land, separating Hansen and Day Islands and connecting the heads of Hanusse Bay and Laubeuf Fjord...

 on the east side of Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The island lies within the Argentine, British and Chilean Antarctic claims, at .Adelaide Island was...

. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from air photos taken by 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), 1947–48, and Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1956-57. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Hans Mothes, German glaciologist who, with B. Brockhamp, made the first seismic soundings of a glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

, in Austria in 1926.