Hjort Fracture Zone
Coordinates: 62 ° 0 ′ S , 163 ° 0 ′ E
The Hjort Fracture Zone (English for Hjort fracture zone ) is a submarine transform fault in the Southern Ocean . It runs north of the Balleny Islands .
The naming of this formation has been confirmed by the US Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF) since December 1971 . It is named after the Norwegian zoologist and oceanographer Johan Hjort (1869–1948).
Web links
- Hjort Fracture zone in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hjort Fracture Zone on geographic.org (English)
- Hjort Fracture Zone on marineregions.org (English)