Porcupine bench

Porcupine Bank and Porcupine Lake Basin

The Porcupine Bank is part of the Irish continental shelf in the North Atlantic about 200 km west of Ireland . It rises to 145 meters below sea level. It is named after the research vessel HMS Porcupine, which it discovered in 1862. It is a site for cold water coral reefs. To the southeast is the Porcupine lake basin .

Individual evidence

1. ^ B. Dorschel, AJ Wheeler, X. Monteys, K. Verbruggen: Porcupine Bank. Atlas of the Deep-Water Seabed 2010, pp. 133-135
2. ↑ Erwin Beck: The diversity of life. John Wiley & Sons, 2013, ISBN 978-3-527-33212-0 , p. 89 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.