Tern Island
| Tern Island | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Isles | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 3 ′ S , 37 ° 20 ′ W | |
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Tern Island is a small and grassy island in the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia . It is located 1.5 km south of Albatross Island and 1 km east of Dot Island in the southern part of the bay.
The American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy mapped them on his trip with the brig Daisy (1912-1913). Scientists of the British Discovery Investigations carried out a geodetic survey of the island between 1929 and 1930 and named it after the terns ( English tern ), to whose breeding area the island belongs.
Web links
- Tern Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tern Island on geographic.org (English)