Skeen Rocks
Avian Island is an island, 1.2 km long and 40 metres high, lying close off the south tip of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and visited in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who so named it because of the large number and variety of birds found there.Places of Interest
Highlights include Carvajal.
Carvajal
Dwelling
Photo: Apacheeng lead, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base is a seasonal Chilean Antarctic base on the south-west tip of Adelaide Island, in Graham Land off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Carvajal is situated 2½ km north of Skeen Rocks.
Skeen Rocks
- Type: Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Skeen Rocks from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Skeen Rocks” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Skeen Rocks”
- Chinese: “斯基恩岩”
- Dutch: “Skeen Rocks”
- German: “Skeen Rocks”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skeen Rocks”
- Swedish: “Skeen Rocks”
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Highlights include Crosse Passage and Avian Island.
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