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Bellingshausen Plain (64°0′S 90°0′W / 64.000°S 90.000°W / -64.000; -90.000), also known as Bellinghausen Abyssal Plain, is an undersea plain parallel to the continental rise in the Bellingshausen Sea, named for Admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, commander of the Russian Antarctic Expedition (1818–1821). The name was approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in April 1974.

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Bellingshausen Plain

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Bellingshausen Plain (64°0′S 90°0′W / 64.000°S 90.000°W / -64.000; -90.000), also known as Bellinghausen Abyssal Plain, is an undersea plain parallel...

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Bellingshausen Sea

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contains the undersea plain Bellingshausen Plain. The Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) is thought to originate in the Bellingshausen Sea as the result of a density...

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Bellingshausen

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named: Bellingshausen Plate, a tectonic plate Bellingshausen Sea, off the Antarctic Peninsula of Antarctica Bellingshausen Plain, an undersea plain of the...

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List of submarine topographical features

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features, oceanic landforms and topographic elements. An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000...

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Charcot Fan

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abyssal fan specifically located between the Bellingshausen Plain and the continental shelf of the Bellingshausen Sea. It is named after the French polar explorer...

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Zavodovski Island

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The island was officially discovered in December 1819 by Thaddeus von Bellingshausen. The largest penguin colony on Earth with over a million breeding pairs...

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Antarctica

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seen in 1820, during a Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The decades that followed saw further exploration...

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Balearic Sea

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v t e Earth's oceans and seas Antarctic/Southern Ocean Amundsen Sea Bellingshausen Sea Cooperation Sea Cosmonauts Sea Davis Sea D'Urville Sea King Haakon...

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Bay of Isles

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life in a whaling accident in December 1912. Bellingshausen Point was named for Admiral Thaddeus Bellingshausen. Murphy named Brunonia Glacier for his alma...

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Chukchi Sea

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v t e Earth's oceans and seas Antarctic/Southern Ocean Amundsen Sea Bellingshausen Sea Cooperation Sea Cosmonauts Sea Davis Sea D'Urville Sea King Haakon...

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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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established until 1820 by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. The northern three islands were discovered by Bellingshausen in 1819. The islands were tentatively...

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Traversay Islands

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group was discovered in November 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, who named them for Jean-Baptiste Prevost de Sansac, Marquis de Traversay...

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Gulf of Lion

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is exposed here as a wide coastal plain, and the offshore terrain slopes rapidly to the Mediterranean's abyssal plain. Much of the coastline is composed...

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Tyrrhenian Sea

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The Tyrrhenian Basin is divided into two basins (or plains), the Vavilov plain and the Marsili plain. They are separated by the undersea ridge known as...

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List of geological features on Mercury

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chains are called catenae and are named after radio telescope facilities; plains are called planitiae, and most are named after mythological names associated...

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Edmund Hillary

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HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Adventure Furneaux Smith San Telmo Vostok Bellingshausen Mirny Lazarev Bransfield Palmer Davis Weddell Morrell Astrolabe Dumont...

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Baltic Sea

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Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude...

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Neolithodes diomedeae

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the eastern Pacific Ocean, the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and the Bellingshausen and Scotia Seas in the Southern Ocean. They occur from 200 to 2,454 m...

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Alboran Sea

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Atlantic–Mediterranean transition zone from the Alboran Sea to the Horseshoe Abyssal Plain (Iberia–Africa plate boundary)". Marine Geology. 243 (1): 97–119. doi:10...

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Norse settlements in Greenland

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(Ingeborg's grave) on Brattahlid Gardar (today Igaliku) lies on a fertile plain between the Eriksfjord and the Einarfjord and was the episcopal see of Greenland...

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List of explorers

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19th/20th Greater Syria Mesopotamia Asia Minor Arabia Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Baltic German 19th Antarctica Joseph René Bellot French 19th Arctic...

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Atlantic Ocean

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gabbro and overlain by fine clay, silt and siliceous ooze on the abyssal plain. The continental margins and continental shelf mark lower density, but greater...

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Antipodes

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antipodal to the Straits of Magellan. The Russian Antarctic research base Bellingshausen Station is antipodal to a land location in Russian Siberia. Rottnest...

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Gulf of Sidra

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in the area on the Peutinger Table. The landward side was a featureless plain which contrasted with the fertility of the rest of Tripolitania, to the...

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Chesapeake Bay

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drowned valley, of the Susquehanna River, meaning that it was the alluvial plain where the river flowed when the sea level was lower. It is not a fjord,...

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Gulf of Oman

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Mariner". by Daniel Defoe. 1895. p. 279 "The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind". by Herbert George Well. 1920. p. 379. "The...

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History of Russian exploration

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In 1820–1821 a round-the-world expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on sloops Vostok and Mirny discovered the continent...

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Ocean gyre

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deepening of sea level pressures over the Southeast Pacific/Amundsen-Bellingshausen Seas generates a cyclonic circulation cell that reduces sea surface...

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Saaremaa

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statesman and son-in-law of King Christian IV. Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852), leader of the second expedition to successfully cross the...

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