Murphy Wall is a series of north-south trending peaks, the highest 905 m, resembling a wall along the west side of Grace Glacier

Grace Glacier

Grace Glacier is a glacier which flows north into Ample Bay at the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, near Salisbury Plain. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who named it for his wife, Grace Barstow Murphy....

 on the north side of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Robert Cushman Murphy

Robert Cushman Murphy

Robert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and former Lamont curator of birds for the American Museum of Natural History....

, American ornithologist who made observations and collections in the Bay of Isles in 1912-13 for the American Museum

American Museum

The American Museum in Britain is based at Claverton Manor, near Bath, England, in a house, designed by Jeffry Wyatville and built in the 1820s on the site of a manor bought by Ralph Allen in 1758...

 of Natural History

Natural History

Natural history is the scientific study of plants or animals.Natural History may also refer to:In science and medicine:* Natural History , Naturalis Historia, a 1st-century work by Pliny the Elder...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

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