Tail Island

Tail Island

Tail Island Location in Antarctica Tail Island Tail Island (Antarctic Peninsula)
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°40′S 57°37′W
Highest elevation	130 m (430 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Tail Island is a circular island 2.3 kilometres (1.25 nmi) in diameter and 130 m high, lying midway between Egg Island and Eagle Island in the northeast part of Prince Gustav Channel. Islands in this area were first seen by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04. Tail Island was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1945, and so named by them because of its relative position to Eagle and Beak islands.

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Tail Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.