Skilly Peak
| Skilly Peak | ||
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| height | 1050 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 58 ′ 17 ″ S , 61 ° 16 ′ 47 ″ W | |
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The Skilly Peak is a distinctive, rocky and approximately 1050 m high mountain at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 6 km northeast of Shiver Point .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out measurements in 1947 and 1955, and the second time also the naming. Skilly is an English term for thin soup . The reason for this name is that the FIDS scientists only had reduced food rations in 1955.
Web links
- Skilly Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skilly Peak on geographic.org (English)