Hispanopedia WikiIves Bank (67°40′S68°12′W / 67.667°S 68.200°W / -67.667; -68.200) 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.[1] 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.[2]
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This article incorporates public domain material from "Ives Bank". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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- Undersea banks of the Southern Ocean
- Landforms of Graham Land
- Landforms of Adelaide Island
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