Mac. Robertson Land
Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley. It is located at. In the east, Mac. Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains. It was named by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition , under Sir Douglas Mawson, after Sir Macpherson Robertson of Melbourne, a patron of the expedition.
From 1965 onwards, members of the SAE began undertaking geological fieldwork in the Prince Charles Mountains, eventually establishing a base, Soyuz Station, on the eastern shore of Beaver Lake in the northern Prince Charles Mountains.Nomenclature
Mac.Robertson Land is the official Australian name, but it is known in the United States as Mac. Robertson Land and in Russia as MacRobertson Land.
