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Anton Dohrn Seamount

United Kingdom / Scotland / Baile a Mhainich /
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Named after the fishery research ship "FFS Anton Dohrn", which discovered it. The ship is named after Felix Anton Dohrn (1840 - 1909), a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy. The Anton Dohrn Seamount in the Rockall Trough, to the north-west of the British Isles, has become known for the great biodiversity which lives on the cold-water coral, Lophelia pertusa, in this region.
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Coordinates:   57°25'38"N   11°5'57"W

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