Name details

Defant Bank

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

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

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GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) Gazetteer Id 136488

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

Proposer: Dr. H. Hinze, AWI, Germany, Jan. 1997. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Named after Albert Defant (1884-1974). Australian meteorologist and oceanographer. Author two-volume "Physical Oceanography" (1961). Least depth: <200 m.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
76° 50' 00.0" S
-76.83333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
31° 40' 00.0" W
-31.66667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1997

Display Scales

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