| Kirkwall lifeboat and the ferry Eynhallow went to the aid of a boat that grounded on Wyre skerry on Saturday. |
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| We studied allozyme variation in metapopulations of two species of water fleas in the skerry archipelago of southern Finland. |
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| The plaque is made from fine grained sandstone, probably derived from a skerry bed in local Mercia mudstone deposits. |
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| An inflatable from the lifeboat helped put the vessel's anchor down, so that she could winch herself off the skerry. |
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| The term skerry is derived from the Old Norse sker, which means a rock in the sea. |
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| In the northern extremity of the Fowlsheugh is an offshore skerry named Craiglethy, and slightly further a skerry called Gull Craig. |
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| The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry, finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches. |
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| More a skerry than an islet even, it may have appeared to be a speck on the horizon less than 10 minutes ago, but the diminutive size of this smooth cluster of granite boulders is even more striking close up. |
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| Just like Moominpappa in Tove Jansson's Moomin books, my ambition was to live on the loneliest lighthouse on the remotest skerry farthest from land. |
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| The east coast of James Bay is a skerry coast, rocky, rolling and complex, fringed by shoals, and with more than 500 flat and low-lying islands and islets. |
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| Skerry is already sitting, wolfing things down, her blue hair up in a precarious topknot and a few scattered braids. |
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| He also served on Skule Skerry, off Orkney, the most isolated manned lighthouse in Europe. |
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| The mesmerisingimages were taken by photographer Brian Skerry who risks his life swimming alongside the world's most dangerous sea creatures. |
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| The underwater photographer is Brian Skerry, who has years of experience for major national magazines including National Geographic. |
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| Similarly, Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, although distant from the main group, are part of Orkney and technically amongst the Northern Isles. |
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| Seals can be observed in summer months hauling out on the rugged rock formation of Craiglethy Skerry. |
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| Brian Skerry, At Boston University, 2011, born 1962, Underwater Photographer, With National Geographic, Sounding the Alarm for Global Sealife. |
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