Robertson 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.Robertson Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Antarctica
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.41667° or 71° 25′ southLongitude
170° eastNamed after
Dr John RobertsonOpen location code
2VWGH2M2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 11110883763OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Robertson Bay” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خليج روبرتسون”
- Chinese: “羅伯特森灣”
- Dutch: “Robertson Bay”
- French: “baie de Robertson”
- French: “Baie de Robertson”
- French: “Baie Robertson”
- German: “Robertson Bay”
- Hungarian: “Robertson-öböl”
- Italian: “Baia di Robertson”
- Italian: “baia Robertson”
- Italian: “Robertson Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Robertsonbukta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Robertson Bay”
- Norwegian: “Robertsonbukta”
- Polish: “Zatoka Robertsona”
- Swedish: “Robertson Bay”
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