Western Basin

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Coordinates: 74 ° 13 ′  S , 174 ° 34 ′  W

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The Western Basin is a deep -sea tectonic trench in the Ross Sea in Antarctica .

The Italian geoscientists Anna Del Ben, Icilio Finetti and Michele Pipan from the University of Trieste discovered and named it in 1997.

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