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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Crescent Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Antarctica
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.61667° or 71° 37′ southLongitude
170.06667° or 170° 4′ eastOpen location code
2VWG93M8+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 11110883764OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
6631626Wikidata ID
Q5184325
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Satellite Map
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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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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Adare Saddle and Nielson Glacier.
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