Granite Harbor
Granite Harbour is a bay in the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about 14 nautical miles long, entered between Cape Archer and Cape Roberts. It was discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–04 in the Discovery in January 1902, while searching for safe winter quarters for the ship.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bay
- Description: Body of water in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Granite Harbour”
Granite Harbor
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-76.88333° or 76° 53′ southLongitude
162.73333° or 162° 44′ eastOpen location code
2VM44P8M+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 11110883786OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
6634126Wikidata ID
Q5595871
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Granite Harbor” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “格蘭納特港”
- German: “Granite Harbor”
- Hebrew: “נמל גרניט”
- Italian: “Granite Harbour”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Granite Harbour”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Granite Harbour”
- Norwegian: “Granite Harbour”
- Portuguese: “Baía Granite”
- Swedish: “Granite Harbour”
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