Crescent Bay
| Crescent Bay | ||
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 Robertson Bay (center left) with Duke of York Island and Crescent Bay |
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| Waters | Robertson Bay , Somow Lake | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 170 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Crescent Bay (English for Crescent Bay is) a bay of the Duke of York Island in the Robertson Bay in northern Victoria Land in Antarctica .
Participants in the British Southern Cross Expedition (1898-1900) led by the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink mapped them and named them descriptively. The bay is the site of a colony of Adelie penguins .
Web links
- Crescent Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crescent Bay on geographic.org (English)