Tapsell Foreland is a broad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between Yule Bay

Yule Bay

Yule Bay is a bay indenting the coast of northern Victoria Land between Cape Hooker and Cape Dayman. An inner portion of the bay is circumscribed by Bates Point and Ackroyd Point. Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross, 1841, who named it for Henry B. Yule, Second Master on the HMS Erebus....

 and Smith Inlet

Smith Inlet (Victoria Land)

Smith Inlet is a bay, wide, partially filled with the ice tongue of Barnett Glacier. It is located between Cape Moore and Cape Oakeley along the coast of northern Victoria Land, and was discovered by Captain James C. Ross, 1841, who named it for Alexander J. Smith, mate on the Erebus....

, northern Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above 800 m The name Tapsell, applied by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board plus selected specialists on Antarctica...

 (NZ-APC) in 1969, is the surname of the Master of the barque Brisk, one of the whaling vessels based on Enderby Settlement at Port Ross

Port Ross

Port Ross is a natural harbour on Auckland Island in the Auckland Islands Group, a subantarctic chain that forms part of the New Zealand Outlying Islands....

, Auckland Islands

Auckland Islands

The Auckland Islands are an archipelago of the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands and include Auckland Island, Adams Island, Enderby Island, Disappointment Island, Ewing Island, Rose Island, Dundas Island and Green Island, with a combined area of...

, 1849-52. In an exploratory voyage in February 1850, Tapsell sailed south to the Belleny Islands and then west along the parallel of 67S as far as 143E. Despite the high latitude, no land was sighted.