Skrap Skerries

The Skrap Skerries are a group of small islands and rocks, comprising West Skerry and East Skerry, off Rookery Bay, a bay on the open sea coast of the Barff Peninsula of South Georgia.

Norwegian sealers and whalers called these rocks Skrapskjar, meaning 'scrape skerry' and the name 'Skrapskjar Rocks' has appeared on charts. Later the Norwegian name was adapted into 'Skrap Skerries'.

Location

• Location map: 54°15’22"S, 36°18’59"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Skrap Skerries