Benn Skerries
Benn Skerries are a small group of rocks which extend up to 0.25 nautical miles westward from Norvegia Point on the island of Bouvetøya. They were charted and named in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia under Captain Harald Horntvedt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Norway
- Also known as: “Bennskjaer” and “Bennskjaeret”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mosbytoppane and Lykketoppen.
Mosbytoppane
Peak
Mosbytoppane, are two crags to the southwest of the caldera of the island of Bouvetøya. The tallest is a snow-covered peak 670 meters above mean sea level and 1.3 kilometers northeast of Norvegiaodden.
Lykketoppen
Peak
Lykketoppen, occasionally anglicized as Lykke Peak, is a snow-covered, 765-meter tall summit that surmounts the southwest part of Bouvetøya, standing 1 nautical mile east of Norvegia Point.
Larsøya
Islet
Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than 0.2 nautical miles long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean. Larsøya is situated 3 km southeast of Benn Skerries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Circoncision and Cape Valdivia.
Cape Circoncision
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cape Circoncision is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on 1 January 1739, the Feast of the Circumcision day—thus the name. Cape Circoncision is situated 4 km north of Benn Skerries.
Cape Valdivia
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Valdivia is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by Norway. Cape Valdivia lies in the centre of the island's highest point. Cape Valdivia is situated 7 km northeast of Benn Skerries.
Benn Skerries
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
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Latitude
-54.43374° or 54° 26′ 2″ southLongitude
3.28156° or 3° 16′ 54″ eastOpen location code
3FQ5H78J+GJOpenStreetMap ID
way 749912475OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Benn Skerries” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Benn Skerries”
- Dutch: “Benn Skerries”
- French: “île Bennskjera”
- German: “Bennschären”
- German: “Bennskjera”
- Japanese: “ベン岩礁”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benn Skerries”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bennskjera”
- Swedish: “Benn Skerries”
- Turkish: “Benn Skerries”
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