Agulhas Bank
The Agulhas Bank is a broad, shallow part of the southern African continental shelf which extends up to 250 km south of Cape Agulhas before falling steeply to the abyssal plain.Photo: Fama Clamosa, Public domain.
- Type: Bank
- Description: broad southernmost part of the African continental shelf
- Also known as: “Agulhas Banks”
Agulhas Bank
- Categories: ocean bank and body of water
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Agulhas Bank” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Agulhasbank”
- Catalan: “Banc Agulhas”
- Dutch: “Agulhasbank”
- French: “Banc des Aiguilles”
- Georgian: “აგულიასის ქვაბული”
- Italian: “Banco di Agulhas”
- Japanese: “アガラスバンク”
- Lithuanian: “Adatos dubuma”
- Lithuanian: “Aguljaso dubuma”
- Portuguese: “Banco das Agulhas”
- Russian: “Агульяс”
- Russian: “Игольного мыса котловина”
- Russian: “Котловина Игольного мыса”
- Slovenian: “Agulhaška brežina”
- Ukrainian: “Агульяс (банка)”
- Ukrainian: “Агульяс”
- Uzbek: “Agulyas (soylik)”
- Uzbek: “Agulyas”
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