Selbukta
| Selbukta | ||
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| Waters | Haakon VII Lake | |
| Land mass | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Selbukta (Norwegian for Robben Bay is) a bay in front of the Princess Martha Coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It is located at the northeastern end of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf immediately south of Cape Norvegia .
The Norwegian polar explorer Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen discovered them in 1930 and named them after the seals found in large numbers in the bay.
Web links
- Seal Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Seal Bay on geographic.org (English)