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Tau Islands
Tau
Islands
is a small
group of islands
and
rocks
which lie
immediately
off the
northeast
extremity
of
Eta Island
in the
Melchior Islands
,
Palmer Archipelago
. The name,
derived
from
the 19th
letter
of the
Greek alphabet
,
appears
to have been first used on a
1946
Argentine government
chart following
surveys
of the
islands
by
Argentine
expeditions
in
1942
and 1943.