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Robertson Land (red), Australian Antarctic Territory in Antarctica.
Mac.
Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley.
It is located at .
In the east, Mac.
Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains.
It was named by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) (1929–1931), under Sir Douglas Mawson, after Sir Macpherson Robertson of Melbourne, a patron of the expedition.Australian Antarctic Division.
Mac.
Robertson Land
From 1965 onward, members of the SAE (Soviet Antarctic Expeditions) began undertaking geological fieldwork in the Prince Charles Mountains, eventually establishing a base, Soyuz Station, on the eastern shore of Beaver Lake in the northern Prince Charles Mountains.
Nomenclature
Mac.Robertson Land (no space after Mac.) is the official Australian name, but it is known in the United States as Mac.
Robertson Land and in Russia as MacRobertson Land.SCAR Gazetteer Ref.
No 8833 Mac.
Robertson Land Features
Cape Rouse
Frustration Dome
Peak Seven
Poulton Peak
Tilley Bay
Tschuffert Peak
See also
List of mountains of Mac.
Robertson Land
References
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