Prestrud Bank
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 30 ′ S , 159 ° 30 ′ W | |
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The Prestrud Bank ( English ) is a submarine bank in the Ross Sea off the Shirase coast on the Edward VII Peninsula in the Antarctic Ross Dependency .
The designation confirmed by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF) in June 1988 was based on the neighboring Prestrud Inlet . Its namesake is the Norwegian naval officer and polar explorer Kristian Prestrud (1881-1927), who was involved in the South Pole expedition (1910-1912) of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen .
Web links
- Prestrud Bank in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Prestrud Bank on geographic.org (English)
- Prestrud Bank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)