Adare seamounts
Coordinates: 70 ° 0 ′ S , 171 ° 30 ′ E
The Adare Seamounts are deep-sea mountains in the Balleny Basin of the Southern Ocean off the north coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land .
They are named after the names of Cape Adare and the Adare Peninsula after Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1812–1871), former Viscount Adare, a friend of polar explorer James Clark Ross .
Web links
- Adare Seamounts in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Adare Seamounts on geographic.org (English)