Tern Island in the south part of the

Bay of Isles The Bay of Isles is a bay wide and deep, lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson (South Georgia), Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia Island, South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British Empire, British expedition ...

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. ...

() is a small, tussock-covered

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

lying 1.6 km (1 mile) south of Albatross Island and 10 km (6 miles) east of Dot Island. It was first charted in 1912-13 by

Robert Cushman Murphy file:The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18156963552).jpg, The whaling ship, ''Daisy'', which Murphy traveled on to the Antarctic Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887 – March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of ...

, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy. Surveyed in 1929-30 by DI personnel, who named it in association with Albatross Island,

Prion Island __NOTOC__ Prion Island is an island north-northeast of Luck Point, lying in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig ''Daisy'', and so named ...

and other natural history names given in the Bay of Isles by Murphy in 1912–13.

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