Skilling Island

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Skilling Island
Map of the South Orkney Islands with Skilling Island (right of center, bottom)
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 Coordinates: 60 ° 47 ′  S , 45 ° 9 ′  W
Skilling Island (Antarctica)
Skilling Island

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.

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