Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Nanok Deep (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Nanok Deep (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Deep
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A bathymetric deep slightly elongated in a NE-SW direction but with irregular boundaries which are poorly defined. The Nanok Deep is below 500 m and extends under the Amery Ice Shelf.
Named for the ship Nanok Sunder charter to the Antarctic Division at the time of study of the distribution of foraminiferids in Prydz Bay.
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