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 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 ...

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 ...

, Antarctica.

Exploration and naming

The Lyall Islands were discovered by Captain

James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of both the northern and southern polar regions. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions led by his uncle, Sir John Ross, John ...

, 1841, who named the group for

David Lyall David Lyall (1817–1895) MD, RN, FLS, was a Scottish botanist who explored Antarctica, New Zealand, the Arctic and North America and was a lifelong friend of Sir Joseph Hooker. He was born in Auchenblae, Kincardineshire, Scotland on 1 June 181 ...

(1817–1895), MD, RN, FLS, Assistant Surgeon on the ''Terror''. In keeping with this, 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) has named some of the individual islands and nearby features for surgeons who have worked in Antarctica.

Location

The Lyall Islands are in the Pacific Ocean to the north of

Tapsell Foreland Tapsell Foreland () is a borad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between Yule Bay and Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above . Exploration and naming The name Tapsell, app ...

and east of

and the

Davis Ice Piedmont Davis Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont about long and wide, located along the north side of Missen Ridge on the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The name ''Cape Davis'', after John E. Davis, Second Master of ...

. From west to east they are Unger Island, Surgeon Island, Novosad Island and Hughes Island.

Islands

Unger Island

. A small, ice-free island, the westernmost of the Lyall Islands, lying southeast of Cape Hooker in the west side of the entrance to Yule Bay. Mapped by the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on Mar ...

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

(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Pat B. Unger, United States Navy Reserve, Medical Officer at Little America V, 1957.

Surgeon Island

. The largest of the Lyall Islands, lying east-southeast of Cape Hooker off the north coast of Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. The toponym conforms to other names in the island group which, along with Cape Hooker, have been named after surgeons who have worked in Antarctica. Named by the US-ACAN.

Novosad Island

. A small, ice-covered island, one of the Lyall Islands, lying north-northeast of

Cape Dayman Tapsell Foreland () is a borad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between Yule Bay and Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above . Exploration and naming The name Tapsell, app ...

. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Charles L. Novosad, Jr., United States Navy, Medical Officer at the Naval Air Facility, McMurdo Sound, 1957.

Hughes Island

. A small ice-covered island, the easternmost of the Lyall Islands, lying just outside the east part of the entrance to Yule Bay. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Ronald M. Hughes, United States Navy, Medical Officer at McMurdo Station, 1966.

References

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