Nightingale Shoal
| Nightingale Shoal | ||
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| height | 16 m below sea level | |
| location | Weddell Sea , Southern Ocean | |
| Notch height | 335 m | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 55 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Nachtigaller Shoal or Nachtigaller Hill is an undersea mountain in the Weddell Sea about 65 km southeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula .
The mountain stands on the Antarctic continental shelf , which is 350 m below sea level here. Its foot is about 15 km long and 9.5 km wide at a depth of 350 m. Nachtigaller Shoal has a 15.4 km² large plateau 6.9 km long and 2.7 km wide, which is between 20 and 50 m below sea level.
The shoal was explored from aboard the research vessel Polarstern in February 2013 . It is named after Professor Dr. Abdul Nachtigaller , a character from Walter Moers' first Zamonia novel The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear .
Individual evidence
- ↑ B. Dorschel, J. Gutt, D. Piepenburg, M. Schröder, J.-E. Arndt: The influence of the geo-morphological and sedimentological settings on the distribution of epibenthic assemblages on a flat topped hill on the over-deepened shelf of the Western Weddell Sea (PDF; 7.4 MB). In: Biogeosciences Discussions . Vol. 11, 2014, pp. 1631-1672. doi : 10.5194 / bgd-11-1631-2014
- ↑ New discovery on the seabed - AWI scientists name previously unknown underwater mountains after Nelson Mandela and a character from "The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear". In: awi.de. Alfred Wegener Institute, June 19, 2014, accessed on June 20, 2014 .