Barsukov Seamount () is a

seamount A seamount is a large geologic landform that rises from the ocean floor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock. Seamounts are typically formed from extinct volcanoes that rise abru ...

named in honor of the Russian scientist, Valeri Barsukov, former Director of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry. The name proposed by Dr. G.B. Udintsev, of the same institute, and approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1995.

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* Seamounts of the Southern Ocean {{Marine-geo-stub