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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Cape Penelope”
Penelope Point
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.50375° or 71° 30′ 14″ southLongitude
169.78192° or 169° 46′ 55″ eastElevation
81 metres (266 feet)Open location code
2VWFFQWJ+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 11109206664OpenStreetMap feature
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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