Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Skips Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Skips Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The largest, most northern island within the Svenner Islands, in southern Prydz Bay.
Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 11 published in 1946. SCAR Map Catalogue map number 12812. Australia adopted the name Skipsholmen in 2011, which was changed to Skips Island in 2021 and the coordinates corrected to match the location of the island on Norwegian maps. Translated from Norwegian the name means “The Ship Inlet". Original spelling was Skipsholmen with the modern spelling being the same.
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