Colbeck 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Colbeck Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Antarctica
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.64141° or 71° 38′ 29″ southLongitude
170.08442° or 170° 5′ 4″ eastElevation
2 metres (7 feet)Named after
William ColbeckOpen location code
2VWG935M+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 11110883765OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
6631323Wikidata ID
Q5141933
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Satellite Map
Discover Colbeck Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Colbeck Bay” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Colbeck Bay”
- Chinese: “科爾貝克灣”
- Galician: “Colbeck Bay”
- German: “Colbeck Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colbeck Bay”
- Spanish: “Colbeck Bay”
- Swedish: “Colbeck Bay”
- Venetian: “Colbeck Bay”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Terrace and Borchgrevink’s Hut.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Adare Saddle and Hargreaves Peak.
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