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Skua Terrace (60°41′S 45°38′W / 60.683°S 45.633°W / -60.683; -45.633) is a terrace in the northwest part of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, extending north-south from the vicinity of Spindrift Rocks to the vicinity of Express Cove. Named in 1980 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) from the numerous pairs of brown skuas nesting in the area.

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by humans, though is more likely to have arrived naturally, probably by skuas from the Kerguelen Islands where it is widespread. It was initially recorded...

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either side of it. Other birds known to nest at the site include brown skuas, Cape petrels, and snowy sheathbills. Bynon Hill Cathedral Crags List of...

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charadriiformes and glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus). Among other bird species are skua, sterna, northern fulmar, (Fulmarus glacialis), ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea)...

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Wilson's and black-bellied storm petrels, Cape petrels, brown and south polar skuas, and Antarctic terns. A 2016 study examined lake guano sediments and studied...

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