Ives Bank
| Ives Bank | ||
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| Waters | Ryder Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 40 ′ S , 68 ° 12 ′ W | |
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The Ives Bank ( English ) is a submarine bank located at least 11 m below the sea surface in the southern reaches of Ryder Bay on Adelaide Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km south of the Mikkelsen Islands .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Lieutenant Commander David Mure Ives (* 1946) of the Royal Navy in 1984 , who was involved in surveying the bank with the HMS Endurance in March 1981 .
Web links
- Ives bank in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ives Bank on geographic.org (English)
- Ives Bank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)