Skua Island
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Skua Island is an island immediately northeast of Prion Island in the entrance to the Bay of Isles, South Georgia.
Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy. Surveyed in 1929-30 by Discovery Investigations personnel and named in association with Albatross Island, Prion Island and other natural history names given in the Bay of Isles by Murphy in 1912-13.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Skua Island
- Location: 54°1’1"S, 37°15’0"W
