Jelbart Basin
Coordinates: 70 ° 20 ′ S , 4 ° 43 ′ W
The Jelbart Basin is a lake basin in the Lasarev Sea off the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It is located immediately north of the Jelbart Ice Shelf at a depth of 300 to 600 m below sea level .
It has been named after the neighboring ice shelf since 1997 at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute . Its namesake is the Australian physicist John Ellis Jelbart (1926-1951), who drowned on February 24, 1951 during the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949-1952) not far from the Maudheim base camp .
Web links
- Jelbart Basin in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Jelbart Basin in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)