Mollyhawk Island
| Mollyhawk Island | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Isles | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 1 ′ S , 37 ° 19 ′ W | |
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Mollyhawk Island is a small, grassy island in the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia . It lies between Seaward Rock and Crescent Island in the northern part of the bay.
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 from 1929 to 1930. Murphy named it after the English name for young animals of the Dominican gull , to whose breeding grounds the island belongs.
Web links
- Mollyhawk Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mollyhawk Island on geographic.org (English)