Zélée subglacial moat
| Zélée subglacial moat | ||
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| location | George V Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Zélée Subglacial Trench ( English Zélée Subglacial Trench ) is a depression completely covered by glacial ice in the East Antarctic Georg V country . It runs in a north-northeast southsouthwest orientation and coincides with the through Mertz Glacier created Kar together.
Its extent was determined by sonar tracking as part of a joint program of the Scott Polar Research Institute , the National Science Foundation and Denmark's Technical University between 1967 and 1979. It is named after the Zélée , the ship of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of the polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville .
Web links
- French gunboat Zélée Subglacial Trench in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zélée Subglacial Trench on geographic.org (English)