Birthday 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.Places of Interest
Highlights include Sphinx Rock.
Sphinx Rock
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.Birthday Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Antarctica
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.43359° or 71° 26′ 1″ south
Longitude
169.41093° or 169° 24′ 39″ east
Open location code
2VWFHC86+H9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Birthday Point” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Бърдей Пойнт”
- Cebuano: “Birthday Point”
- Chinese: “生日角”
- German: “Birthday Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birthday Point”
- Swedish: “Birthday Point”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Locke and Ommanney Glacier.
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