Berkner Bank
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Geographical location | 75 ° 0 ′ S , 48 ° 0 ′ W | |
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The Berkner Bank ( English ) is a submarine bank in the middle of the West Antarctic Weddell Sea . Berkner Island and the Henry Ice Rise are based on it .
The formation has been named after Lloyd Viel Berkner (1905–1967), a member of the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) , since 1973 .
Web links
- Berkner Bank in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Berkner Bank on geographic.org (English)
- Berkner Bank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)