Description
Teal Island is located in SW El Capitan Passage, Alex. Arch.
History
Named in 1932 by R. S. Patton, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), for triangulation station Teal located on this island and "to replace the descriptive name by a distinctive one." The descriptive name "South Island" was published in the 1925 Coast Pilot (p. 154).