Skua Creek

Skua Creek
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 Coordinates: 65 ° 15 ′ 6 ″ S , 64 ° 15 ′ 44 ″ W

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 ).

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