Bungenstock plateau
Coordinates: 68 ° 57 ′ S , 6 ° 30 ′ E
The Bungenstock Plateau is an oceanic plateau in the Lasarew Sea off the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica .
The plateau was named in 1999 at the suggestion of the German geoscientist Hans Werner Schenke from the Alfred Wegener Institute . It is named after the German geologist and geophysicist Herwald Bungenstock (1928–1998), who played a key role in the resumption of marine and polar research in Germany after the Second World War .
Web links
- Bungenstock Plateau in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Bungenstock plateau in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)