Protection Cove
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.Protection Cove
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Antarctica
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.65° or 71° 39′ south
Longitude
170.2° or 170° 12′ east
Elevation
1,100 metres (3,609 feet)
Open location code
2VWG85XX+XX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Protection Cove” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “普羅特克申灣”
- German: “Protection Cove”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Protection Cove”
- Swedish: “Protection Cove”
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