Bellingshausen Plain (), also known as Bellinghausen Abyssal Plain, is an undersea plain parallel to the
continental rise in the
Bellingshausen Sea
The Bellingshausen Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula between 57°18'W and 102°20'W, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island (there the southern ''Vostokkyste ...
, 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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Abyssal plains of the Southern Ocean
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