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.- Glacier with an elevation of 128 metres (420 feet)
- …is named after Erasmus Ommanney
- Description: glacier in the Antarctic
Ommanney Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.53635° or 71° 32′ 11″ south
Longitude
169.4898° or 169° 29′ 23″ east
Open location code
2VWFFF7Q+FW
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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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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