Teall Island
| Depot Island | ||
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| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf , Ross Sea | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 3 ′ S , 161 ° 54 ′ E | |
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Teall Island is a ridge- like island off the Hillary coast of East Antarctica, Victoria . It is completely enclosed by the Ross Ice Shelf and lies west of the mouth of the Skelton Glacier .
Presumably participants of the British Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) discovered the island, which they misleadingly named Cape Teall . It was charted as an island by the New Zealand crew of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958). They named these after the actual Cape Teall , which was named after the British geologist and petrologist Jethro Teall (1849-1924).
Web links
- Teall Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Teall Island on geographic.org (English)