skerry

For years I coloured your world in hues you didn't recognise; never your island, always your skerry – "unable to see the romance of the thing for the thing itself".

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2010

Eyvind and all with him left their lives on this rock, and the skerry is still called Skrattasker.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The round bodies moved to and fro, but it was only when he surmounted the skerry of boulders I have mentioned that he realised the horrible nature of the discovery.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

O. N. sker, a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

Shortly afterwards he was again lying on the skerry, and the lass smiled so blithely; she bent over him and said, "It is I, Eilert."

From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain

Golden eagles and buzzards soar, and otters and grey seals share the rocky skerries.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020

But Lake Malar is one of the largest in Sweden, with more than 8,000 islands and skerries and several cities on its perimeter, including Stockholm to the east.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2018

Down here it is deep night; dark gleams the surf on the skerries.

From Time Magazine Archive

This point shelters the harbour from the sea, but is not itself absolutely exposed to it, for islands and skerries lie beyond it, and between them the two entrances, the North and West Sounds.

From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson

The flood-tide will be past, and if there is any sea on, it will be ill passing the skerries, many of which are but little covered, even at high water.”

From The Norsemen in the West by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne