Mollyhawk Island () is a small, tussock-covered island lying between

Seaward Rock 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 South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an is ...

and

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. It was surveyed and named in 1929–30 by Disco ...

in the northern part of the Bay of Isles,

South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east� ...

. It was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American naturalist aboard the brig ''Daisy''. The island was surveyed in 1929–30 by Discovery Investigations personnel and named in association with Albatross Island, Prion Island and other natural history names in the Bay of Isles given by Murphy, "mollyhawk" being a name for a type of young gull.

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Islands of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub

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