The south polar skua is a large seabird in the skua family, Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the

Terra Nova Bay is a bay of the Ross Sea which is often ice free, about 40 nautical miles long, lying between Cape Washington and the Drygalski Ice Tongue along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.