Crescent Island (South Georgia)
| Crescent Island | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Isles | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 1 ′ S , 37 ° 19 ′ W | |
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Crescent Island (from English crescent , crescent moon, crescent moon ) is a small, roughly crescent-shaped island in the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia . It is located immediately south of Mollyhawk Island .
The American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy mapped them on his trip with the brig Daisy (1912-1913). Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out a geodetic survey of the island and its naming from 1929 to 1930 .
Web links
- Crescent Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crescent Island on geographic.org (English)