It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Nathaniel Bowditch, American astronomer and mathematician, author of The New American Practical Navigator (1801) which firmly set out the practical results of theories established at that date and has since gone through more than 56 editions.
Nathaniel Bowditch | Clare Bowditch | The Crests | Dean Bowditch | Bowditch Field |