Skilling Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Skilling Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Small island immediately N of Atriceps Island in the Robertson Islands group of the South Orkney Islands. Although roughly charted at a much earlier date, the island was first surveyed in 1933 by DI personnel. Named by the UK-APC for Charles J. Skilling (1931-52) of the FIDS, general assistant at Signy Island, 1949, and member of the sledge party which visited the Robertson Islands in 1949. Skilling died aboard the John Biscoe on April 17, 1952.
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