Tail Island


Tail Island is a circular island 1.25 nautical miles 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 in 1945, and so named by them because of its relative position to Eagle and Beak islands.