Albatross Island

Location of Albatross Island

Albatross Island is an island in the Bay of Isles lying two miles southeast of Cape Buller on South Georgia.

The island was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who gave this name because he observed albatrosses there. All but two of the islands of the Bay are named after birds.

Wildlife

The island is rat-free and there is a breeding population of South Georgia Pipits here, along with wandering albatrosses and giant petrels.

The island has been designated by the South Georgia Government as a Specially Protected Area, and has been closed to visitors since 2004, to protect vulnerable habitat from trampling.

References

• Location: 54°1’1"S, 37°19’59"W