Invisible Island
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Invisible Islet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crescent Island and Mollyhawk Island.
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.
Mollyhawk Island
Islet
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.
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.
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 6 km south of Invisible Island.
Invisible Island
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.01951° or 54° 1′ 10″ southLongitude
-37.31222° or 37° 18′ 44″ westOpen location code
39Q4XMJQ+54OpenStreetMap ID
way 4751176OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Invisible Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Invisible Island”
- Chinese: “因維瑟布爾島”
- Dutch: “Invisible Island”
- French: “Invisible Island”
- German: “Invisible Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Invisible Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Invisible”
- Swedish: “Invisible Island”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Invisible Island”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.