Defant Bank

Defant Bank
Submerged bank Defant Bank (Antarctica)
Ocean	Southern Ocean

Defant Bank (

76°50′S 31°40′W / 76.833°S 31.667°W / -76.833; -31.667) is a submarine bank in the Weddell Sea named for Albert Defant (1884–1974), who was both a physician and an oceanographer/geophysicist specializing in tides. The name was proposed by Dr. 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.^[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Defant Bank". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)