Clothier Harbour is the 1.5 km wide bay indenting for 1 km the north coast of

Robert Island Robert Island or Mitchells Island or Polotsk Island or Roberts Island is an island long and wide, situated between Nelson Island and Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Robert Island is located at . Surface area . ...

in the

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between Hammer Point on the northeast and

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on the southwest. The harbour was used as a safe base by American sealing ships in 1820–21. The bay was discovered, charted and named by American sealers after the vessel ''Clothier'' under Captain Clark, which sank there in December 1820.

Location

The harbour's midpoint is located at (British mapping in 1821, 1822 and 1968, Argentine in 1949, Chilean in 1962, and Bulgarian in 2009).

Map

* L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Landforms of Robert Island Bays of the South Shetland Islands {{RobertIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

Map

References