Tapsell Foreland () is a borad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between

Yule Bay Yule Bay is a bay indenting the coast of northern Victoria Land between Cape Hooker and Cape Dayman. An inner (western) portion of the bay is circumscribed by Bates Point and Ackroyd Point. Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross, 1841, who nam ...

and Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above .

Exploration and naming

The name Tapsell, applied by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1969, is the surname of the Master of the barque ''Brisk'', one of the whaling vessels based on Enderby Settlement at Port Ross, Auckland Islands, 1849–52. In an exploratory voyage in February 1850, Tapsell sailed south to the

Balleny Islands The Balleny Islands () are a series of uninhabited islands in the Southern Ocean extending from 66°15' to 67°35'S and 162°30' to 165°00'E. The group extends for about in a northwest-southeast direction. The islands are heavily glaciated an ...

and then west along the parallel of 67°S as far as 143°E. No land was sighted.

Location

Tapsell Foreland extends eastward into the Pacific Ocean to the south of

and the

Lyall Islands Lyall Islands () is a group of four islands, Unger Island, Surgeon Island, Novosad Island and Hughes Island, lying just outside the entrance to Yule Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The Lyall Islands were discovered by Ca ...

, and to the north of Barnett Glacier, which empties into Smith Inlet. The Kirkby Glacier flows north past its west end. Glaciers rising on the foreland include

O'Hara Glacier Yule Bay is a bay indenting the coast of northern Victoria Land between Cape Hooker and Cape Dayman. An inner (western) portion of the bay is circumscribed by Bates Point and Ackroyd Point. Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross, 1841, who name ...

and Fortenberry Glacier, which flow north, and

McElroy Glacier Barnett Glacier () is a large glacier in the Anare Mountains that flows east along the south side of Tapsell Foreland into Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming Barnett Glacier was mapped by the United States ...

which flows south into Barnett Glacier. Other features around the coast include

Ackroyd Point Yule Bay is a bay indenting the coast of northern Victoria Land between Cape Hooker and Cape Dayman. An inner (western) portion of the bay is circumscribed by Bates Point and Ackroyd Point. Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross, 1841, who name ...

, Sentry Rocks, Cape Dayman, Cape Moore, Scharon Bluff and Matthews Ridge.

Features

Fortenberry Glacier

. A glacier on the north side of Tapsell Foreland. It flows north into Yule Bay east of Ackroyd Point. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by the United States

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Ralph M. Fortenberry, United States Navy, Medical Officer at McMurdo Station, 1960.

Sentry Rocks

. Two high, rugged rocks lying just off Cape Dayman. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. The US-ACAN applied this descriptive name which is suggestive of the position and appearance of the feature.

Cape Dayman

. A cape on the north side of Tapsell Foreland that forms the south side of the entrance to Yule Bay. Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross, 1841, who named it after Joseph Dayman, mate on the ship ''Erebus''.

Cape Moore

. A cape at the east end of Tapsell Foreland which forms the north side of the entrance to Smith Inlet. Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross, 1841, who named it for Thomas E.L. Moore, mate on the ''Terror''.

Scharon Bluff

. A steep rock bluff high on the south side of Tapsell Foreland. The bluff surmounts the north side of Barnett Glacier, west of Cape Moore. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for LeRoy H. Scharon, United States Exchange Scientist (geophysics) at Molodezhnaya Station, winter 1968.

Matthews Ridge

. A high, mostly snow-covered ridge, long, on the south side of Tapsell Foreland. The ridge forms the east wall of McElroy Glacier and terminates to the south at Barnett Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Jerry L. Matthews, geologist who worked in the

Horlick Mountains The Horlick Mountains are a mountain range in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. Some sources indicate that the designation includes the Ohio Range, the Long Hills, and all of the Wisconsin Range, while others suggest that it include ...

, 1965-66, and the

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...

area, 1966-67.

References

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* * {{Include-USGov , agency=United States Geological Survey Peninsulas of the Ross Dependency Landforms of Victoria Land Pennell Coast