Crescent Island
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Islet
- Description: island of South Georgia
- Also known as: “Crescent Islet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mollyhawk Island and Invisible Island.
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.
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.
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 Crescent Island.
Crescent Island
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.01478° or 54° 0′ 53″ southLongitude
-37.31672° or 37° 19′ 0″ westOpen location code
39Q4XMPM+38OpenStreetMap ID
way 146992671OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Crescent Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Crescent Island”
- Chinese: “克雷森特島”
- Dutch: “Crescent Island”
- French: “Crescent Island”
- German: “Crescent Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Crescent Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Media Luna”
- Swedish: “Crescent Island”
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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 “Crescent Island”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.