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

Latitude
-77° or 77° south
Longitude
-36° or 36° west
Open location code
29M62222+22
Geo­Names ID
4036756
Wiki­data ID
Q5448307
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Filchner Trough” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Filchner Trough
  • German: Filchner Trough
  • Swedish: Filchner Trough

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