Houtz Bank
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 0 ′ S , 166 ° 33 ′ W | |
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The Houtz Bank ( English is) a submarine bank in the Antarctic Ross Sea . It lies in front of the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the geophysicist Robert E. Houtz of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University , who from the 1960s to the 1980s was one of the first geophysical surveys in the area of the Ross Sea and other parts of the Southern Ocean .
Web links
- Houtz Bank in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Houtz Bank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)