Filchner Trough
The Filchner Trough is an undersea trough extending north from its associated feature, the Filchner Ice Shelf. The name, proposed by Heinrich Hinze of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, was approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1997.Filchner Trough
- Type: Trough
- Description: Undersea trough
- Categories: undersea trough and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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From Cebuano to Swedish—“Filchner Trough” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Filchner Trough”
- German: “Filchner Trough”
- Swedish: “Filchner Trough”
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