Helmert Bank

Helmert Bank
Submerged bank
Helmert Bank (Antarctica)
OceanSouthern Ocean

Helmert Bank (75°0′S 29°20′W / 75.000°S 29.333°W / -75.000; -29.333) is a submarine bank in the Weddell Sea named for the German geodesist Friedrich Robert Helmert. The name was proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and was approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1997.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Helmert Bank". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-06-10.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Helmert Bank". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


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