Shmidt Subglacial Basin

Shmidt Subglacial Basin

Shmidt Subglacial Basin (coord|72|0|S|106|0|E|) is a large subglacial basin situated southward of Knox Coast in East Antarctica. Named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1957, after Soviet academician, Professor Otto Yu. Shmidt (1891-1956).


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