Shell Bank (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Shell Bank (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bank
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.
A submarine bank on the Kerguelen Plateau about 126 nautical miles north-east of Heard Island. The bank is about 200 metres deep. The position has been fixed by echo sounding and GPS and it has been mapped by various survey vessels including the Eltanin, Cape Pillar, Professor Mesyatsev and RSV Aurora Australis. Of all the five outlying submarine banks in the Heard Island region this is the only one which has sediment consisting of fine white shell grit. The others have sediment of fine black volcanic sand.
Named for the white shell grit in the sediment in the bank.
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