Barla's bank
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| Waters | Bay of Isles ( South Georgia ) | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 0 ′ S , 37 ° 19 ′ W | |
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Barlas Bank ( English ) is a small submarine bank off the north coast of South Georgia . It is located 2.5 km southeast of Cape Buller on the west side of the entrance to the Bay of Isles .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped them between 1929 and 1930 and named them after William Barlas (1888-1941), representative of the United Kingdom on Deception Island and the rest of the South Shetland Islands (1914-1915) and on various occasions on South Georgia (1928-1941) ).
Web links
- Barlas Bank in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barlas Bank on geographic.org (English)