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Changed "skerries" to "islands"
editIt says "Gunnbjörn's skerries were a group of small skerries...". But it doesn't seem that they could have been skerries, since Skerry says
A skerry is a small rocky island, usually too small for human habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack. A skerry may have vegetative life such as moss and small, hardy grasses. Skerries also, in some areas of the world, are rested upon by animals such as seals or birds, though usually not inhabited.
yet this article says that there were at one time 18 farms on the islands. This doesn't seem very skerry-like. The islands are gone now so there's no objective measure we make now.
I get they are are named "skerry", but so. Lots of things are misnamed. If a hill is called "X's Mountain" we still tell the reader that its a hill not a mountain. Even if the sources say "skerry", that just shows the sources are wrong and falling into a kind of false friend type trap based on the name of the islands. I mean, if someone can demonstrate that they were skerries which, unique among skerries I guess, were somehow able to support 18 farms, then fine.
Considering all this, I've changed it to "Gunnbjörn's skerries were a group of small islands..." Herostratus (talk) 20:15, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Location
editI've added some detail from an NOAA publication,and remooved the uncited reference to 69°N - this seems much too far north, mmore than 120 nautical miles north of the northenmost part of the Iceland mainland, which doesn't tally with the description. Kognos (talk) 22:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)