Defant Bank
Defant Bank is a submarine bank in the Weddell Sea named for Albert Defant, who was both a physician and an oceanographer/geophysicist specializing in tides.- Undersea bank
- Description: submerged bank in Southern Ocean
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-76.83333° or 76° 50′ south
Longitude
-31.66667° or 31° 40′ west
Open location code
29MC588M+M8
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Defant Bank” goes by many names.
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