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Robertson Bay

Coordinates: 71°25′S 170°0′E / 71.417°S 170.000°E / -71.417; 170.000
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Map of Robertson Bay, First on the Antarctic continent, 1901

Robertson Bay (71°25′S 170°0′E / 71.417°S 170.000°E / -71.417; 170.000) 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.

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