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Mollymawk Island near South Georgia gains its name from them.

"Mollymawk" is a name for various medium sized albatross.

In the southern hemisphere, most people still call the albatross mollymawk, which came from the word malle-mugge, an old Dutch.

Schinas lives aboard the self-built steel cruising yacht Mollymawk with her family.

Over the next few days Mollymawk grew tamer and more confiding towardsDorian.

This mollymawk feeds on squid, fish and crustacea.

'I'll show ye, ye mollicking mollymawk,' he shouted brandishing his fist at me.

The men volunteered to board a lighter which was being towed by Mollymawk in heavy weather to reattach cables after the tow line parted.

The name "Mollymook" is believed to be a corruption of mollymawk, the name given by sailors to small species of albatross.

Mollymawk (AT 2383)

Mollymawk (HTS 504)

A medium sized mollymawk in the albatross family, it was long considered to be a subspecies of the Shy Albatross.

It is a typical black and white mollymawk with a grey head and large eye patch, and its nape and hindneck are white.

On the morning after Mollymawk disappeared, Tom took his usual seat onthe bench against the bulkhead in Master Walsh's cabin.

Mollymawk Island (mollymawk)

The White-capped Albatross (Thalassarche steadi) is a mollymawk that breeds on the islands off of New Zealand.

The views are spectacular and the colony provides great photo opportunities, as do the Wandering Albatross sometimes seen nesting in the tussock beyond the Mollymawk colony.

The name mollymawk was coined in the 17th century from the German rendering of the Dutch Mallemugge, which meant mal - foolish and mok - gull.

This small mollymawk was once considered conspecific with the Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross and known as the Yellow-nosed Albatross.

In Carnley Harbour, energetic adventurers can climb up to the Southwest Cape Shy Mollymawk or Albatross Colony.

The Grey-headed Albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma) also known as the Grey-headed Mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family.

Salvin's Albatross, or Salvin's Mollymawk, Thalassarche salvini, is a large seabird that ranges across the Southern Ocean.

In the southern hemisphere, the name mollymawk is still well established in some areas, which is a corrupted form of malle-mugge, an old Dutch name for the Northern Fulmar.

Buller's Albatross or Buller's Mollymawk, Thalassarche bulleri, is a small mollymawk in the albatross family.

On 6 October 1959 two men, Sappers Hugh Brooks and Ronald Leslie Hill, of Mollymawk were awarded the British Empire Medal for their "outstanding courage and seamanship".