Calf 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.Calf Point
- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of 132 metres (433 feet)
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.5024° or 71° 30′ 9″ south
Longitude
169.75559° or 169° 45′ 20″ east
Open location code
2VWFFQX4+26
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Calf Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Calf Point”
- Chinese: “卡爾夫角”
- German: “Calf Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Calf Point”
- Swedish: “Calf Point (udde i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Calf Point”
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