Name details

Berkner Bank

Berkner Bank (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Berkner Bank  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) Gazetteer Id 136467

Feature type: Bank (6)

Origin

This name originates from . It is part of the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Accredited by: BGN (Jun. 1973). Named after the nearby Berkner Island. Lloyd V Berkner, American physicist, was engineer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Sources in which the name was cited are: 1) "Surface Features on Sand Grains from Antarctic Continental Shelf and Deep-Sea Cores" by Rex and Margolis in Antarctic Journal, Sept./Oct. 1969, p. 168. 2) "Possible Interglacial Dune Sands in 300 Meters Water Depth in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica" by Rex, Margolis and Murray in Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81 (11/1970), p. 3465-3472.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
75° 39' 00.0" S
-75.65000°
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Longitude:
44° 30' 00.0" W
-44.50000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

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Approval status

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Date approved:
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