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Robertson Bay

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Robertson Bay is a large, roughly triangular bay that indents the north coast of Victoria Land between Cape Barrow and Cape Adare. [1]

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  1. 27 relations: Adare Peninsula, Adélie penguin, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctica, Arthur Shipley, Bay, C. S. Wright, Cape Adare, Carsten Borchgrevink, Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, Erasmus Ommanney, George Newnes, George V, Hans Henrik Reusch, Harry Pennell, HMS Terror (1813), James Clark Ross, John Murray (oceanographer), John Scott Keltie, McMurdo Station, Operation Deep Freeze, Royal Navy, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, United States Geological Survey, Victor L. A. Campbell, Victoria Land, Yngvar Nielsen.

  2. Bays of Victoria Land

Adare Peninsula

The Adare Peninsula, is a high ice-covered peninsula, long, in the northeast part of Victoria Land, extending south from Cape Adare to Cape Roget. Robertson Bay and Adare Peninsula are Pennell Coast.

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Adélie penguin

The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is the only place where it is found.

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Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Arthur Shipley

Sir Arthur Everett Shipley GBE FRS (10 March 1861 – 22 September 1927) was an English zoologist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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C. S. Wright

Sir Charles Seymour Wright (7 April 1887 – 1 November 1975), nicknamed Silas Wright after novelist Silas K. Hocking, was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition of 1910–1913, the ''Terra Nova'' Expedition.

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Cape Adare

Cape Adare is a prominent cape of black basalt forming the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula and the north-easternmost extremity of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Robertson Bay and cape Adare are Pennell Coast.

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Carsten Borchgrevink

Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1 December 186421 April 1934) was a Norwegian polar explorer and a pioneer of Antarctic travel.

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Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax

Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (20 December 1800 – 8 August 1885), known as Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet, between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whig politician and Member of the British Parliament.

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Erasmus Ommanney

Sir Erasmus Ommanney (22 May 1814 – 21 December 1904) was a Royal Navy officer and an Arctic explorer of the Victorian era.

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George Newnes

Sir George Newnes, 1st Baronet (13 March 1851 – 9 June 1910) was a British publisher and editor and a founding figure in popular journalism.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Hans Henrik Reusch

Hans Henrik Reusch (5 September 1852 – 27 October 1922) was a Norwegian geologist, geomorphologist and educator.

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Harry Pennell

Lieutenant Pennell with a prismatic compass Commander Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882 – 31 May 1916) was a Royal Navy officer who served on the Terra Nova Expedition.

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HMS Terror (1813)

HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813.

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James Clark Ross

Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer known for his explorations of the Arctic, participating in two expeditions led by his uncle John Ross, and four led by William Edward Parry, and, in particular, for his own Antarctic expedition from 1839 to 1843.

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John Murray (oceanographer)

Sir John Murray (3 March 1841 – 16 March 1914) was a pioneering Canadian-born British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist.

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John Scott Keltie

Sir John Scott Keltie (29 March 1840 – 12 January 1927) was a Scottish geographer, best known for his work with the Royal Geographical Society.

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McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.

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Operation Deep Freeze

Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet

Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848) was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant best known for serving as the Second Secretary to the Admiralty from 1804 until 1845.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Victor L. A. Campbell

Victor Lindsey Arbuthnot Campbell (20 August 1875 – 19 November 1956) was an English Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer.

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Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau.

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Yngvar Nielsen

Yngvar Nielsen (29 July 1843, Arendal, Aust-Agder – 2 March 1916) was a Norwegian historian, politician, geographer and pioneer of tourism in Norway.

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See also

Bays of Victoria Land

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Bay

Also known as Berg Bay, Birthday Point, Calf Point, Cape Barrow (Antarctica), Cape Klövstad, Cape Wood, Colbeck Bay, Crescent Bay, Crume Glacier, Dugdale Glacier, Egeberg Glacier, Flat Island (Antarctica), Frank Newnes Glacier, Geikie Land, Geikie Ridge, Haffner Glacier, Islands Point, Mount Wright, Murray Glacier, Nameless Glacier, Newnes Glacier, Nielsen Glacier, Ommanney Glacier, Penelope Point, Pressure Bay, Protection Cove, Relay Bay, Reusch Glacier, Scott Keltie Glacier, Shipley Glacier, Siren Bay, Sphinx Rock (Victoria Land), Warning Glacier.