Crescent 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.- Bay
- Description: bay in Antarctica
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.61667° or 71° 37′ south
Longitude
170.06667° or 170° 4′ east
Open location code
2VWG93M8+8M
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Crescent Bay” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Crescent Bay”
- Chinese: “克雷森特灣”
- French: “Crescent Bay”
- German: “Crescent Bay”
- German: “Halbmondbucht”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Crescent Bay”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Adare Saddle and Nielson Glacier.
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