Jaegyu Knoll
| Jaegyu Knoll | ||
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| location | Antarctic Sound , Weddell Sea | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | Submarine volcano | |
The Jaegyu Knoll is a submarine volcano off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It protrudes 700 m above the sea floor and reaches its maximum height 200 m below sea level . The volcano is located 8.8 km northwest of Rosamel Island in the Antarctic Sound .
The discovery and a bathymetric survey took place in January 2001 as part of the United States Antarctic Program under the direction of the US geologist Eugene Domack (1956-2017) with the help of the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer . The Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF) named him in 2007 after Jeon Jae-Gyu, a Korean scientist at King Sejong Station , who fell into the sea in 2003 while attempting to rescue a boat that was known to be in Maxwell Bay and on his way back along of the bank to a Chilean station had died of hypothermia .
Web links
- Jaegyu Knoll in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jaegyu Knoll on geographic.org (English)
- Jaegyu Knoll on marineregions.org (English)