Skua Creek
Skua Creek | ||
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Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
with water | Southern ocean | |
Separates land mass | Skua Island , Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
of land mass | Winter Island , Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
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Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ 6 ″ S , 64 ° 15 ′ 44 ″ W | |
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The Skua Creek is a narrow strait before the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of Argentine Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago , it separates Skua Island in the south from Winter Island in the north.
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it and named it Skua Inlet , evidently assuming it was a bay. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee adapted this name to the actual situation in 1954. It is named after the Antarctic skua ( Stercorarius maccormicki ).
Web links
- Skua Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skua Creek on geographic.org (English)