Ekström Basin
Coordinates: 70 ° 30 ′ S , 9 ° 30 ′ W
The Ekström Basin is a lake basin in the Weddell Sea off the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It lies north of the Ekström Ice Shelf .
It is named at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute based on the name of the ice shelf of the same name. Its namesake is the Swedish engineer Bertil Ekström (1919–1951), who fell from the edge of the western quartz ice shelf on February 24, 1951 and was killed in the process. The designation was confirmed in June 1997 by the US Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF).
Web links
- Ekström Basin in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Ekström Basin in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)