Crary fan
Coordinates: 74 ° 0 ′ S , 33 ° 0 ′ W
The Crary Fan (English for Crary fan ) is a deep sea formation in the Weddell Sea . It lies off the coast of the East Antarctic Coatsland .
The formation was named at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute . The namesake of the name recognized by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1997 is the American geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911–1997).
Web links
- Crary Fan in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crary Fan on geographic.org (English)
- Crary fan in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)