Amery Basin
Coordinates: 68 ° 15 ′ S , 74 ° 30 ′ E
The Amery Basin is a large, approximately 900 m deep lake basin in the middle of Prydz Bay off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1988 based on the name of the Amery Ice Shelf . Both objects are named after William Bankes Amery (1883–1951), representative of the United Kingdom for immigration to Australia between 1925 and 1929. In Russia it is known as Kotlowina Lednikowaja ( Russian Котловина Ледниковая , literally translated as glacial basin ).
Web links
- Amery Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Amery Basin on geographic.org (English)