Clothier Harbour

Clothier Harbour is a bay a mile wide indenting the north coast of Robert Island amongst the South Shetland Islands within the British Antarctic Territory. It is to the south-west of Hammer Point.

Thee bay was discovered and charted by nineteenth-century sealers, who knew it as 'the safest harbour on the North side of [the South] Shetland [Islands] that is clear of Ice'; named Clothier Harbour, after the American ship Clothier (under Captain Abraham B. Clark) of Stonington, wrecked here, 9 December 1820.

The harbour was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.

Location

• Location map: 62°20’57"S, 59°40’52"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Clothier Harbour