SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Storegg Bank

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

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

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Place ID: 14081
Name ID: 29

Feature type: Bank

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Storegg (Russia)
Storegg Bank (Unknown)

Narrative

A submarine bank about 45 km off the Mawson Coast of Mac.Robertson Land. The bank was discovered on 9 January 1934 by the Norwegian whale factory ship Solglimt, which found the bottom shelved steeply from 5,100 to 310 m. It was thought that there was a large edge there to which was given the name Storeggen (The Great Ridge).

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 10' 00.0" S

-67.16667°

Accurate to 300m

Longitude:

64° 35' 00.0" E

64.58333°

Accurate to 300m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Bathymetric Grid for the region 60E to 90E, 48S to 70S

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( kerg_ant_bathy - Bathymetric Grid for the region 60E to 90E, 48S to 70S )

Source Scale:

1:0.005 Grid

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Royal Australian Navy

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

7-Dec-1976

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