Nordenskjöld basin
Coordinates: 76 ° 3 ′ S , 165 ° 0 ′ E
The Nordenskjöld Basin is a lake basin in the Ross Sea off the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land .
The namesake of the name recognized by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF) in April 1980 is the neighboring Nordenskjöld ice tongue . It is named after the Swedish polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld (1869–1928), who led the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) to explore the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Nordenskjöld Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nordenskjöld Basin on geographic.org (English)