Penelope Point
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.- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of 81 metres (266 feet)
- …is also known as “Cape Penelope”
- Description: Victoria Land, Antarctica
Penelope Point
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.50375° or 71° 30′ 14″ south
Longitude
169.78192° or 169° 46′ 55″ east
Open location code
2VWFFQWJ+GQ
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natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Penelope Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Penelope Point”
- Chinese: “佩涅羅珀角”
- German: “Penelope Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penelope Point”
- Swedish: “Penelope Point”
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