Rinner Trough
Coordinates: 77 ° 40 ′ S , 35 ° 0 ′ W
The Rinner Trough is a deep sea channel in the Weddell Sea off the Luitpold coast of the East Antarctic Coatsland .
The channel is named after the Austrian geodesist Karl Rinner (1912-1991) at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute . The designation was confirmed in June 1997 by the US Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF).
Web links
- Rinner Trough in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rinner Trough on geographic.org (English)
- Rinner Trough in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)