Clothier Harbour

Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Clothier Harbouris the 1.5 km wide bay indenting for 1 km the north coast ofRobert Islandin theSouth Shetland Islands,AntarcticabetweenHammer Pointon the northeast andOnogur Islandson the southwest. The harbour was used as a safe base byAmericansealingships in 1820–21.

The bay was discovered, charted and named by American sealers after the vesselClothierunder Captain Clark, which sank there in December 1820.

Location

The harbour's midpoint is located at62°20′47″S59°39′40″W(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, 2010.ISBN978-954-92032-9-5(First edition 2009.ISBN978-954-92032-6-4)

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.