Albertbank
Coordinates: 77 ° 10 ′ S , 32 ° 45 ′ W
The Albertbank is a bank in the Antarctic Weddell Sea . It is located not far from the Coatsland coast at a depth of at least 250 m below sea level.
It is named at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute after Albert I of Monaco (1848-1922), who in 1903 was instrumental in creating the first maps of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). The designation was confirmed in July 1997 by the US Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF).
Web links
- Albert Bank in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Albert Bank on geographic.org (English)
- Albert Bank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)