Little Skellig — small is beautiful

How misleading names can be. Where a pair of islands occur they are often named greater or little/ lesser: the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean; Great Britain and Lesser Britain (Ireland) as described by the Greek cartographer Ptolemy in the second century.

Little Skellig — small is beautiful

By Dan MacCarthy

How misleading names can be. Where a pair of islands occur they are often named greater or little/ lesser: the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean; Great Britain and Lesser Britain (Ireland) as described by the Greek cartographer Ptolemy in the second century.

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