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Stayaway Skerries: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Stayaway Skerries in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Stayaway Skerries

Feature Class (see definition): Island

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 14515

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 64° 45' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 064° 18' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -64.75

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -64.3

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1960

Description (see definition): Group of rocks and low-lying reefs awash, lying 1.5 mi S of Cape Monaco, off the SW coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57. So named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) as a caution to mariners; the group has patches of shoal water extending for some distance from it and should be given a wide berth.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Stayaway Skerries in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Stayaway Skerries information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Stayaway Skerries should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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