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Hall Island (Russian: Остров Галля; ''Ostrov Gallya'') is an island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Hall Island is almost completely glacierized. The only relatively large areas free of permanent ice are located in its southern end, where there are two headlands, Cape Tegethoff (''Mys Tegetkhoff''), and also Cape Ozernyy (''Mys Ozernyy''), on Littov Peninsula, (''Poluostrov Littova''). There is also a very small unglacierized area around its eastern cape, Mys Frankfurt, and another in its northwestern point, Cape Wiggins (''Mys Uigginsa''). Hall Island's area is and it is one of the largest islands in the group. Its highest point is . There is a wide bay on the southeastern side of Hall Island known as Hydrographer Bay (''Zaliv Gidrografov'') and a smaller one west of the Littov Peninsula called Bukhta Surovaya. Hall Island is located very close to the eastern shores of MacKlintok Island, separated from it by a narrow sound. To the southeast there is a wider strait separating Hall Island from Salm Island known in Russian as Proliv Lavroka. The strait to the east is the large Avstriskiy Proliv. Hall Island was named after American Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall. ==History== This island was discovered on August 30, 1873, by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition. It was the first major island of the Franz Josef group on which the expedition members set foot. In 1898-99 a small camp was built at Mys Tegetkhof (Cape Tegethoff, ) by the Walter Wellman expedition. It contains a marker commemorating the discovery of the archipelago. Cape Tegethoff was named after the main ship of the Austro-Hungarian explorers, which had been name in honor of Austrian admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hall Island (Arctic)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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