Murphy Wall () is a series of north–south trending peaks, the highest 905 m, resembling a wall along the west side of
Grace Glacier
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 (at ...
on the north side of
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†...
. Surveyed by the
South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for
Robert Cushman Murphy, American ornithologist who made observations and collections in the Bay of Isles in 1912-13 for the
American Museum of
Natural History,
New York City.
Mountains and hills of South Georgia
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