Skvarca Headland

	Skvarca Headland
	Geographical location
Coordinates	66 ° 4 ′ S , 60 ° 56 ′ W Coordinates: 66 ° 4 ′ S , 60 ° 56 ′ W
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Oskar II coast
Waters	Ensenada Da Silva
Waters 2	Stand ring inlet

The Škvarča Headland is a towering promontory at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the south side of the Jason Peninsula , it separates the Ensenada Da Silva from the Standring Inlet, 26 km east of the Hanza Inlet .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2011 after the Argentinian glaciologist Pedro Skvarca (* 1944) from Slovenia , who had been working in Antarctica since the early 1970s and whose research objects included the Larsen Ice Shelf .

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