The Anvil Stacks () are two conspicuous sea stacks which lie close south of the entrance to

Elephant Cove Elephant Cove () is a small circular cove lying north of Klutschak Point along the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia. The name "Elephant Bay", probably applied by early sealers at South Georgia, was recorded on the chart of the G ...

, off the south coast and near the west end of

South Georgia South Georgia is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. ...

. The name Elephant Bay Islands, derived from nearby Elephant Cove (formerly Elephant Bay), has been used locally for this feature by some South Georgia

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 1800 ...

. The descriptive name Anvil Stacks, a less cumbersome name, was suggested by the

South Georgia Survey The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957. Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of t ...

following their survey in 1951–52.

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* Rock formations of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub