Petrel Island (South Georgia)
| Petrel Island | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Isles | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 2 ′ S , 37 ° 17 ′ W | |
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Petrel Island is an island in the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia . It is located 1.2 km southwest of Prion Island .
The American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy mapped them on his trip with the brig Daisy (1912-1913). Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations took from 1929 to 1930, a geodetic survey of the island and named it after the petrels ( English petrel ), the island belongs to their breeding grounds.
Web links
- Petrel Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Petrel Island on geographic.org (English)