Defant Bank
Defant Bank | |
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Submerged bank
  Defant Bank (Antarctica) | |
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Defant Bank (76°50′S 31°40′W / 76.833°S 31.667°W) is a submarine bank in the Weddell Sea named for Albert Defant (1884–1974), who was both a physician and an oceanographer/geophysicist specializing in tides. The name was proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and was approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1997.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Defant Bank". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
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