Skerries

''See Skerry for information about the meaning of this term

Skerries may refer to a number of geographical locations:

In Ireland:-
The Gaelic translation of Skerries is Na Sceire which means "sea rocks".

Skerries, Dublin, a seaside town in north Dublin

Skerries is a seaside town in Fingal, Fingal County. (Geographic coordinates for Skerries Harbour, [53°35′N 6°06′W]). The town is located about 30 km north of central Dublin (M1 north of Dublin Airport, turn right at R 132 junction and right at R 127) and 5 km south of Balbriggan and is on the main Belfast to Dublin railway line. The town is famous in north county Dublin for having the largest concentration of pubs in the area. Although the population of Skerries is less than 10,000 there are at least 15 bars in the town. The oldest and most well known pubs are Joe May's, The Coast Inn, The Black Raven and Fingal's Cave.

In Northern Ireland:

The Skerries, a group of rocky islets located off the north coast near Portrush, County Antrim

In Scotland:

The Out Skerries islands

The Ve Skerries islands

The Pentland Skerries

Sule Skerry

In Wales:

The Skerries (in Welsh, Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid), a group of rocky islets located off the north coast of Anglesey

In Scandinavia:

The term skerry is derived from the old Norse sker, which means a rock in the sea. The Old Norse term sker got into the English language via the Scots language. It is a cognate of the Scandinavian languages' (skjær, skär and skjär). Scandinavian skerries are most commonly formed at the outlet of fjords where submerged glacially formed valleys at right angles with the coast join with other cross valleys in a complex array. In some places near the seaward margins of heavily fjorded areas, the ice-scoured channels were so numerous and varied in direction that the rocky coast is divided into thousands of island blocks, some large & mountainous while others a merely rocky points or rock reefs, menacing navigation.

Examples include:

* The island fringe of Norway is such a group of skerries (called a skjærgård); many of the cross fjords are so arranged that they parallel the coast and provide a protected channel behind an almost unbroken succession of mountainous islands and skerries. By this channel one can travel through a protected passage almost the entire 1,600 km route from Stavanger to North Cape, Norway.

* The Blindleia is a skerry-protected waterway that starts near Kristiansand in southern Norway, and continues past Lillesand.

* The Swedish coast along Bohuslän is likewise skerry guarded.

* The southwestern coast of Finland has an archipelago of skerries, one notable example is Bengtskär.

In North America:

* The “inside passage” provides a skerry-protected route from Seattle, Washington, through Canadian British Columbia to Skagway, Alaska.

In South America:

* A skerry-protected passage extends from the Straits of Magellan north for 800 km.

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