Skilling Island
Skilling Island | ||
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Map of the South Orkney Islands with Skilling Island (right of center, bottom) | ||
Waters | Weddell Sea | |
Archipelago | Robertson Islands , South Orkney Islands | |
Geographical location | 60 ° 47 ′ S , 45 ° 9 ′ W | |
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The Skilling Island is a small island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It belongs to the Robertson Islands group and is located immediately north of the Atriceps Island .
Although the island was included in maps much earlier, the first survey was not carried out until 1933 by participants in the British Discovery Investigations . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1955 after Charles John Skilling (1930-1952), general assistant scientist of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey on Signy Island in 1949 and member of a sled team for the visit to the Robertson Islands, which on April 17, 1952 a few hours before reaching port Stanley on board the research vessel John Biscoe in a pneumonia died.
Web links
- Skilling Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skilling Island on geographic.org (English)