Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Larsen Bank (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Larsen 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 and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A bank with less than 18 m of water, about 3 km from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands. The bank is about 90 m long (north-south) and 45 m wide, least depth found was 16 m. Charted in January 1962 during a survey of Newcomb Bay and approaches by d' A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by Phillip Law. Named after Ludvig Larsen, second mate on the M.V. Thala Dan in 1962.
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