Skua Terrace (60°41′S45°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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SkuaTerrace (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...
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macaroni penguins nest on Bellingshausen and Thule Island, as well as gulls, skuas, snow petrels and Wilson's petrels. Fur seals and southern elephant seals...
Lancaster, Handley Page Halifax, Short Stirling, Short Sunderland, Blackburn Skua, Avro Anson, Miles Master, and the de Havilland Rapide. The first jet fighter...
islands have breeding populations of Wilson's storm petrels and Antarctic skuas; and Odbert Island supports breeding populations of Adélie penguins. Rec...
mites, nematodes and rotifers) and a colony of over 40 pairs of south polar skuas. The area is the type locality for both the lichen Caloplaca coeruleofrigida...
there. Example dioramas include South Georgia featuring king penguins and skuas, the East African plains featuring secretarybirds and bustards, and the...
introduced species. Seabirds are abundant at Candlemas. Penguins, petrels and skuas visit the island, and there are penguin colonies at numerous sites along...
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...
colonies (>1900 breeding pairs as of 2018), and one of the largest south polar skua colonies in the world (~1,000 breeding pairs). It also hosts several species...
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...
Bellingshausen, Halfthree Point, Suffield Point, Fossil Point, Gradzinski Cove and Skua Cove. Clement Hill Eddy Point Saunders Valley "Fildes Strait". Geographic...
charadriiformes and glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus). Among other bird species are skua, sterna, northern fulmar, (Fulmarus glacialis), ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea)...
Area by BirdLife International. A colony of about 300 pairs of south polar skuas is also present. In 1901, Carsten Borchgrevink, part of the British Antarctic...
Washington have Adelie penguin and emperor penguin rookeries and south polar skuas and Weddel seals are also found. More than twenty-four lichen plus six moss...
species of mites and three of springtails, breeding colonies of south polar skuas and Adélie penguins. A large Adélie penguin colony occupies Seabee Hook...
Beach at the south-western end, and several breeding colonies of south polar skua. It has been designated an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International...
polar skuas, numbering over 50 breeding pairs, is present on the headland that stands high above the penguins. The huge monolith that the skuas nest on...
felts are Calothrix, Nostoc and Phormidium. Explorers have seen south polar skuas (Catharacta maccormicki). The birds nest close to moist and vegetated areas...
substrates are nutrient-enriched by colonies of Adélie penguins and south polar skuas. The site contains a diverse range of freshwater habitats supporting algae...
research station, birds nesting in the area include Adélie penguins, Antarctic skuas, Wilson's storm petrels, southern giant petrels, snow petrels and Cape petrels...
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...
breeding colonies. Other birds breeding at the site include south polar skuas, Wilson's storm petrels and snow petrels. The site has also been designated...
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