Prion Island

Prion Island
Waters	Bay of Isles
Archipelago	South Georgia
Geographical location	54 ° 2 ′  S , 37 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′  S , 37 ° 15 ′  W

Prion Island is an island in the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia . It is located 2.5 km north-northeast of Luck Point .

The American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy mapped them on his trip with the brig Daisy (1912-1913). Murphy named the island after the tribe prion from the family of the petrels to the prions and the blue petrel include that nest on this island.

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View over Prion Island to South Georgia

Web links

• Prion Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Prion Island on geographic.org (English)