Ommanney Glacier
Robertson Bay is a large, roughly triangular bay that indents the north coast of Victoria Land between Cape Barrow and Cape Adare. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for Dr. John Robertson, surgeon on HMS Terror.Ommanney Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 128 metres
- Description: glacier in the Antarctic
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-71.53635° or 71° 32′ 11″ south
Longitude
169.4898° or 169° 29′ 23″ east
Elevation
128 metres (420 feet)
Named after
Open location code
2VWFFF7Q+FW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
Discover Ommanney Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ommanney Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ommanney Glacier”
- Chinese: “翁曼尼冰川”
- German: “Ommanney-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Ommanney”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ommanneybreen”
- Swedish: “Ommanney Glacier”
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