Larsen Bank | |
Subdivision Type: | Ocean |
Subdivision Name: | Southern Ocean |
Subdivision Type1: | Archipelago |
Subdivision Name1: | Windmill Islands |
Subdivision Type2: | Minimum depth |
Subdivision Name2: | 16 m |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Larsen Bank is a shoal with a least depth of 52feet in the northern part of Newcomb Bay, Antarctica, located 0.50NaN0 north of Kilby Island in the Windmill Islands.[1]
It was discovered and charted in February 1957 by a party from the . The bank was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Ludvig Larsen, second mate on the Thala Dan, used by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in a 1962 survey of Newcomb Bay.[1]