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. Exploration and name Discovered by Captain James C ...

and Smith Inlet, northern

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above .

Exploration and naming

The name Tapsell, applied by

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(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 Port Ross is a natural harbour on Auckland Island in the Auckland Islands Group, a subantarctic chain that forms part of the New Zealand Outlying Islands. Guarding the mouth of Port Ross are Rose Island, Enderby Island, Ewing Island, and ...

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, 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 glaciate ...

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, and to the north of

Barnett 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 empties into Smith Inlet. The

Kirkby Glacier Kirkby Glacier () is a glacier, in length, that drains the central Anare Mountains of Antarctica and flows northwest to the sea just north of Arthurson Bluff, northern Victoria Land. Name Kirkby Glacier was named by the Australian National Anta ...

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. Exploration and name Discovered by Captain James C ...

and Fortenberry Glacier, which flow north, and McElroy Glacier which flows south into Barnett Glacier. Other features around the coast include Ackroyd Point, 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

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(USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by the United States

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(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

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, 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 group in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, lying eastward of Reedy Glacier and including the Wisconsin Range, Long Hills and Ohio Range. Discovery and naming The mountains were discovered in ...

, 1965-66, and the

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area, 1966-67.

References

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