Mollyhawk Island
Mollyhawk Island is a small, tussock-covered island lying between Seaward Rock and Crescent Island in the northern part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia.- Type: Islet
- Description: island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Mollyhawk Islet” and “Mollymawk Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crescent Island and Seaward Rock.
Crescent Island
Islet
Crescent Island is a small, roughly crescent-shaped island lying close south of Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was roughly charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy.
Seaward Rock
Islet
Seaward Rock is a rock close to the northeast of Mollyhawk Island, which is the northern and most seaward rock in a group of islands occupying the central part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia.
Invisible Island
Islet
Invisible Island is a small, tussock-covered island lying close southeast of Crescent Island and Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, and was probably named by Discovery Investigations personnel who surveyed the Bay of Isles in 1929–30.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salisbury Plain.
Salisbury Plain
Locality
Photo: Pismire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Salisbury Plain is a broad coastal plain found with the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia. It lies between the mouths of Grace and Lucas glaciers on the southern coast of the bay, with Mount Ashley south of it. Salisbury Plain is situated 7 km south of Mollyhawk Island.
Mollyhawk Island
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.01116° or 54° 0′ 40″ southLongitude
-37.31373° or 37° 18′ 49″ westOpen location code
39Q4XMQP+GGOpenStreetMap ID
way 146992673OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mollyhawk Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mollyhawk Island”
- Chinese: “莫利莫克島”
- Dutch: “Mollymawk Island”
- German: “Mollyhawk Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mollymawk Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Mollyhawk”
- Swedish: “Mollyhawk Island”
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