Hall Island (South Georgia)
| Hall Island | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | Willis Islands , South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 0 ′ S , 38 ° 9 ′ W | |
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Hall Island is a small, steep-walled island overgrown with tussock grass in the group of Willis Islands off the western end of South Georgia . It lies between the Verdant Islands and Proud Island .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it between 1926 and 1930. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after Geoffrey Penrose Dickinson Hall (* 1916) of the Royal Navy , who was in command of HMS Owen when it surveyed this area between 1960 and 1961.
Web links
- Hall Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hall Island on geographic.org (English)