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Ives Bank

Ives Bank

Submerged bank in Southern Ocean

Ives Bank (67°40′S 68°12′W) is a submarine bank with a least depth of 11 metres (6 fathoms) in the Bellingshausen Sea. It is located in the southern approaches to Ryder Bay, Adelaide Island, Antarctica, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Mikkelsen Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Lieutenant Commander David M. Ives, Royal Navy, who surveyed this bank from HMS Endurance in March 1981.[1]

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    "Ives Bank". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-07-12.

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