Glomar Challenger Basin
Coordinates: 77 ° 45 ′ S , 180 ° 0 ′ E
The Glomar Challenger Basin is a north-south facing lake basin on the central-north edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Ross Sea .
The namesake of the name recognized by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF) in June 1988 is the American research vessel Glomar Challenger .
Web links
- Glomar Challenger Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Glomar Challenger Basin on geographic.org (English)