Petersen Bank
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 45 ′ S , 109 ° 55 ′ E | |
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The Petersen Bank ( English ) is a submarine bank in the Mawson Sea off the coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It extends immediately west of the Balaena Islands in a north-northwest direction.
The ships of the US Operation Windmill (1947-1948) carried out depth soundings of part of the bank. This was done in more detail between 1956 and 1957 by scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The bank is named after the Danish captain Hans Christian Petersen, skipper of the Kista Dan during deep soundings in January 1956.
Web links
- Petersen Bank in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Petersen Bank on geographic.org (English)
- Petersen Bank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)