Whale Skerries
| Whale Skerries | ||
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| Waters | Lewthwaite Strait | |
| archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 ′ S , 45 ° 6 ′ W | |
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The Whale Skerries are a small group of islands and cliffs in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . In the Lewthwaite Strait they are immediately west of the Cape Disappointment of Powell Island .
The Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle mapped them between 1912 and 1913. He named them as Hvalskjærene (Norwegian for whale skerries ). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this designation into English in 1954.
Web links
- Whale Skerries in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whale Skerries on geographic.org (English)