Clothier Harbour

Clothier Harbour: Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Clothier Harbour is the 1.5 km wide bay indenting for 1 km the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Hammer Point on the northeast and Onogur Islands 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.

Contents

1 Location

2 See also

3 Map

4 Reference

Location

The harbour's midpoint is located at 62°20′47″S 59°39′40″W / 62.34639°S 59.66111°W / -62.34639; -59.66111 (British mapping in 1821, 1822 and 1968, Argentine in 1949, Chilean in 1962, and Bulgarian in 2009).

See also

Robert Island

South Shetland Islands

Map

L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

Reference

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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