Hayes Bank
| Hayes Bank | ||
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 15 ′ S , 172 ° 26 ′ W | |
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The Hayes Bank ( English ) is a submarine bank in the Antarctic Ross Sea . It is centrally located in front of the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .
It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 2004. It is named after the American geophysicist Dennis Hayes of Columbia University , who carried out extensive research on board the USNS Eltanin as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program in the 1960s and 1980s Antarctica operated.
Web links
- Hayes Bank in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Hayes Bank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)