West Skerry
| West Skerry | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 15 ′ S , 36 ° 20 ′ W | |
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The West Skerry ( English for West Schäre [sic!]) Is a group of islands and small cliffs off the north coast of South Georgia . They are 3 km east of Barff Point and form the western part of the Skrap Skerries .
The name goes back to scientists from the British Discovery Investigations who mapped it between 1926 and 1930. The archipelago was February 7, 1934 the scene of a momentous shipwreck in which the existing twelve men crew of the whaler Shoma after a disaster had come on the ship for a collision in the storm killed.
Web links
- West Skerry in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- West Skerry on geographic.org