Iselin Seamount

Coordinates: 70 ° 45 ′  S , 178 ° 15 ′  W

Iselin Seamount​

Antarctic

The Iselin Seamount is a deep sea mountain in the Ross Sea northeast of the Victoria Land in Antarctica .

The name giver of the name recognized by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in February 1964 is the research vessel Iselin II of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . However, research from 2004 suggests that this deep-sea mountain does not exist.

Web links

• Iselin Seamount in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Iselin Seamount on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 792 (English).