Larsen Bank [SEP] continent
Larsen Bank
Larsen Bank is a shoal with a least depth of in the northern part of Newcomb Bay, Antarctica, located north of Kilby Island in the Windmill Islands.
It was discovered and charted in February 1957 by a party from the . The bank was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Ludvig Larsen, second mate on the "Thala Dan", used by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in a 1962 survey of Newcomb Bay.
Foreign Office to claim for Norway any uncharted territory that was found. By the end of the second expedition, two small islands in the Southern Ocean, Bouvet Island and Peter I Island, had been annexed. In 1929 Christensen decided to include aeroplanes in the next expedition and appointed Riiser-Larsen its leader. Riiser-Larsen then supervised and took part in mapping most of the Antarctic in this and three further expeditions. More territory was also annexed, this time the large area of the continent known as Queen Maud Land.