Robertson Island
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Robertson Island is an ice-covered island, 13 miles long in a northwest-southeast direction and 6 miles wide, lying at the east end of the Seal Nunataks off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Robertson Island is located at . Captain Carl Anton Larsen discovered Robertson Island from the Jason on December 9, 1893. Larsen named Robertson Island for William Robertson, co-owner of Woltereck and Robertson, the Hamburg firm that sent him to the Antarctic.
