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

Now they saw it, and said that it must be a skerry; but he was so much keener of sight than they that he was able to discern men upon the skerry.

From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

One morning in January, while he was out fishing in his boat with two other men, he heard, in the dark, a voice from a skerry at the very entrance of the creek.

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

When the sun went below the sea-margin there lay before him on the skerry some mouldering linen rags and nought else.

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

Rock and skerry are brown with sea weed.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

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

In all, some twenty-five galleons were dashed to pieces under the giant cliff walls of the Irish coast, or on outlying skerries and rocky headlands.

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by John Richard Hale

This was the ocean beating on the great army of islands, or skerries, that line the west coast of Norway from north to south.

From Chasing the Sun by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne