SkyMapper is a new widefield 1.35m telescope located in Australia dedicated to
surveying the southern sky. Its UV optimised 5.7 sq-degree FOV will map the entirety
of the southern sky over the next 5 years, and will undertake specific programs to
discover and monitor supernovae. In addition to the study of core collapse events
directly, SkyMapper offers the ability to study core collapse supernovae through
their light echoes, as well as through studies of metal poor stars, whose
nucleosynthetic output is dominated by a single event.