Scotia Bank
| Scotia Bank | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 0 ′ S , 22 ° 30 ′ W | |
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The Scotiabank ( English is) an approximately 300 m below sea level lies submarine bank in the Weddell Sea off the Caird Coast of the East Antarctic Coats country .
It has been named since June 1997 at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute . It is named after the Scotia , the ship of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) under the direction of the Scottish polar explorer William Speirs Bruce , whose southernmost point reached coincides with the geographic location of this bank.
Web links
- Scotia Bank in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Scotiabank in the database of the Marine Gazetteer (English)