Explora Escarpment
Coordinates: 70 ° 33 ′ S , 15 ° 0 ′ W
The Explora Escarpment is a step of terrain on the bottom of the Weddell Sea . It is located off the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land .
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 research vessel Explora , which was used to carry out geophysical surveys in this area between 1977 and 1980.
Web links
- Explora Escarpment in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Explora Escarpment on geographic.org (English)
- Explora Escarpment in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)