Albatross Island (South Georgia)
Albatross Island is an island southeast of Cape Buller, lying in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who gave this name because he observed albatrosses there. The eastern headland of the island is called The Pricker, a name which first appeared on a 1931 British Admiralty chart.
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.
