Maycock's Bay, Barbados
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Maycock's Bay is located between Six Men's Bay and
Harrison Point ''For the point in Barbados, see Harrison Point, Barbados'' Harrison Point is a point marked by a string of off-lying rocks, lying west of Busen Point on the south side of Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was charted in 1927 by Discovery Inve ...
in St. Lucy, the northwest of
Barbados Barbados, officially the Republic of Barbados, is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American ...
. It is on the west coast of the island to the north. The area has multiple cliffs extending from Bird Rock to Archers Bay and from Stroud Bay to Maycocks Bay.Robert C. Speed, Richard L. Sedlock Geology and Geomorphology of Barbados 0813724910 - 2012 - "Intervals of multiple cliffs extend from Bird Rock to Archers Bay and from Stroud Bay to Maycocks Bay, where the active seacliff is ~2 m high and cut into a narrow, 3-m-wide bench of the stage 5a Worthing terrace (Fig. 11.3). "


Important Bird Area

Bird Rock, a rock stack some 30 m offshore from the cliffs, has been designated an
Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
(IBA) by
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because it supports a breeding colony of Sargasso shearwaters.


References

Bays of Barbados Important Bird Areas of Barbados {{Barbados-geo-stub