Skua Gull Peak
| Skua Gull Peak | ||
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| height | 140 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denfeld Mountains Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Skua Gull Peak (English for Skua Summit ) is a 140 m high mountain with a small lake near the summit in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Denfeld Mountains of the Ford Ranges, it rises 3 km northeast of Saunders Mountain and 800 m south of Mount Stancliff .
Members of a sled team discovered him in November 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . They named it after the colony of the Antarctic kuas ( Stercorarius maccormicki ) found here.
Web links
- Skua Gull Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skua Gull Peak on geographic.org (English)