Place Names Register Extract

Skull Island

Extract date: 14/06/2026

Name	Skull Island
Type Designation	Island
Place Id	18414
Place Type	Feature
Status	Recorded
Date Registered
Location (Datum GDA94)
	Latitude: -15° 36' S (Decimal degrees -15.6)
	Longitude: 136° 48' E (Decimal degrees 136.800001)
Locality / Suburb
	Pellew Islands
Local Government Area
	Roper Gulf Shire Council
History/Origin	Skull Island in the Sir Edward Pellew Group, appears to have been named in the late 1920s. Skull Is appears in red as a 1934 addition to Chart 445 of 1929 following Lieut. Comm. HT Bennett's hydrographic survey in the HMA surveying ship Geranium in 1923. NT Portion 2147

Register & Gazettal information

Date	Gazettal	Comment
	(None Found)

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