Gunnbjörn's skerries (Gunnbjarnarsker) were a group of small rocky islands along or near the eastern coast of Greenland.
In the early 10th century, Gunnbjörn Ulfsson reports finding a group of rocky islands in the Atlantic when his ship is blown off course from Iceland.
[1] Named after him, Gunnbjörn's skerries were likely near modern-day Kulusuk just off the eastern coast of Greenland,[2] but their exact location is unknown.
The colony struggled, Snæbjörn Galti was murdered, the settlement was abandoned, and only 2 colonists survived the return to Iceland.
[4][5] Ívar Bárðarson, a Catholic priest sent to Greenland in 1341, wrote that the skerries were about "two days and two nights sailing due West" from Iceland and the halfway point on trips to the later more successful colonies on the western coast.