Mollymawk Island is a small, tussock-covered island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 lying between Seaward Rock

Seaward Rock

Seaward Rock is a rock close northeast of Mollyhawk Island, being the northern and most seaward rock in a group of islands which occupies the central part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. First charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy. Probably...

 and Crescent Island

Crescent Island

Crescent Island is a small, roughly crescent-shaped island lying close south of Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. Roughly charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy. Surveyed and named in 1929–30 by DI personnel.- See also :...

 in the north part of the Bay of Isles

Bay of Isles

The Bay of Isles is a bay wide and receding , lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands lie in the bay, many of which are named after local birds...

, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy

Robert Cushman Murphy

Robert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and former Lamont curator of birds for the American Museum of Natural History....

, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy. Surveyed in 1929-30 by DI

Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...

 personnel and named in association with Albatross Island

Albatross Island (South Georgia)

Albatross Island is an island southeast of Cape Buller, lying in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. Charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who gave this name because he observed albatrosses there....

, Prion Island

Prion Island

Prion Island is an island 1.5 miles north-northeast of Luck Point, lying in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, and so named because he observed petrels of the genus Prion on the island.The area including the Bay...

 and other natural history names given in the Bay of Isles by Murphy in 1912-13. "Mollymawk

Mollymawk

The mollymawks are a group of medium sized albatrosses that form the genus Thalassarche. The name has sometimes been used for the genus Phoebetria as well, but these are correctly called sooty albatrosses. They are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, where they are the most common of the...

" is a name for various medium sized albatross

Albatross

Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes . They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific...

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