Whale Skerries (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Whale Skerries (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
in Lewthwaite Strait off W point of Powell Island, were charted by Sørlle, 1912-13, and named Hvalskjaer [=whale rock] (Sørlle and Borge, chart, 1913), later corrected to the plural form Hvalskjµrene (Sørlle, chart, 1930); recharted by DI in 1933. Whale Skerries (APC, 1955, p.22; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). Hvalskjaeren, as rejected form (USBGN, 1957, p.41).
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