McDonald Bank
McDonald Bank is a submarine bank in the Weddell Sea named in association with the McDonald Ice Rumples. 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.- Type: Bank
- Description: submerged bank in Southern Ocean
- Also known as: “Mcdonald Bank”
McDonald Bank
- Categories: shoal and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“McDonald Bank” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “McDonald Bank”
- German: “McDonald Bank”
- Swedish: “McDonald Bank”
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