Hall Island

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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 landheads, 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 1049 km² and it is one of the largest islands in the group. Its highest point is 502 m. 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 ot the east is the large Avstriskiy Proliv.

Hall Island was named after American Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall.