Skilling Island

Coordinates: 60°47′S 45°09′W / 60.783°S 45.150°W / -60.783; -45.150
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Skilling Island is a small

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), general assistant at Signy Island
in 1949, and member of the sledge party which visited the Robertson Islands the same year. Skilling died aboard the John Biscoe on 17 April 1952.

Important Bird Area

The island is part of the Robertson Islands North Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports substantial breeding colonies of chinstrap penguins.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Robertson Islands North". BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas. BirdLife International. 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2013.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Skilling Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.  Edit this at Wikidata

60°47′S 45°09′W / 60.783°S 45.150°W / -60.783; -45.150


Stub icon

This South Orkney Islands location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skilling_Island&oldid=1188380369"