Pressure Bay
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.Pressure Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Antarctica
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.41667° or 71° 25′ south
Longitude
169.33333° or 169° 20′ east
Open location code
2VWFH8MM+88
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Pressure Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Pressure Bay” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “普雷舍灣”
- German: “Pressure Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pressure Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pressure Bay”
- Norwegian: “Pressure Bay”
- Swedish: “Pressure Bay”
Localities in the Area
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