Drygalski Basinis an undersea basin named as such by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF) in April 1980, in association with

Drygalski Ice Tongue The Drygalski Ice Tongue, Drygalski Barrier, or Drygalski Glacier Tongue is a glacier in Antarctica, on the Scott Coast, in the northern McMurdo Sound of Ross Dependency, north of Ross Island. The Drygalski Ice Tongue is stable by the standards ...

. The name was changed to "Von Drygalski" in November 1995, in agreement with the

General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) is a publicly available bathymetric chart of the world's oceans. The project was conceived with the aim of preparing a global series of charts showing the general shape of the seafloor. Over the ...

Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names, but was changed back to Drygalski Basin by ACUF in June 2003.

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Oceanic basins of the Southern Ocean Landforms of Victoria Land {{marine-geo-stub