Skua Island (South Georgia)
| Skua Island | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Isles | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 1 ′ S , 37 ° 15 ′ W | |
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Skua Island is an island in the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia . It is located northeast of Prion Island in the entrance to the bay.
The American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy mapped them on his trip with the brig Daisy (1912-1913). Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out a geodetic survey of the island from 1929 to 1930. Murphy named them after the alternative name for the great skua ( Stercorarius skua ), to whose breeding areas the island belongs.
Web links
- Skua Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skua Island on geographic.org (English)