Scend Rocks is a small group of rocks lying 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) southwest of Rumbler Rock and 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) west-northwest of Outcast Islands, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1958. Scend is a nautical term describing the horizontal forward and backward flow of sea water breaking over a shallow obstruction, caused by the incoming ocean swell. This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Scend Rocks" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).