Tapsell Foreland
| Tapsell Foreland | ||
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| location | Pennell Coast , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Smith Inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Yule Bay | |
 Map of the Pennell coast with the Tapsell Foreland (bottom right) |
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The Tapsell Foreland is a wide, mainly snow-covered, mountainous and up to 800 m high peninsula on the Pennell coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It separates Smith Inlet from Yule Bay .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the peninsula in 1969 after the British whaling captain Thomas James Tapsell (1798–1872), who in February 1850 during a reconnaissance voyage in the waters south of the Balleny Islands allegedly at 67 ° 0 ′ S , 143 ° 0 ′ E operated but had no mainland sightings despite the high southern latitude. His ship, the Bark Brisk , was part of the whaling fleet stationed on the Auckland Islands between 1849 and 1852 .
Web links
- Tapsell Foreland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tapsell Foreland on geographic.org (English)