Bowers Canyon
Coordinates: 71 ° 55 ′ S , 172 ° 30 ′ E
The Bowers Canyon is a deep trench off the coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies west of the Iselin Bank in the Ross Sea .
The name recognized by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in 1980 was based on the name of the Bowers Glacier . Its namesake is the American meteorologist Chester H. Bowers, senior US representative at Hallett Station in 1962. Measurements from 2004 in this area indicated that this trench may not exist.
Web links
- Bowers Canyon in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowers Canyon on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 196 (English).