Skua Terrace
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| location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands , Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 41 ′ S , 45 ° 38 ′ W | |
The Scua Terrace ( English for Skua Terrace ) is a terrace on Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It extends north-south from the area around the Spindrift Rocks to the area around Express Cove .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after the large number of breeding pairs of the Sub-Antarctic kuas ( Stercorarius antarcticus ) found here.
Web links
- Scua Terrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scua Terrace on geographic.org (English)