Iselin Trough
Coordinates: 71 ° 15 ′ S , 170 ° 14 ′ W
The Filchner Trough is a deep sea channel in the Ross Sea in Antarctica .
The channel has been named since 1997 at the suggestion of Steven Cande from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory . The naming was based on the neighboring Iselin Bank . It is named after Columbus Oswald Iselin II, oceanographer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution .
Web links
- Iselin Trough in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Iselin Trough in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)