JOIDES Basin is a northeast trending undersea basin of the central Ross continental shelf. It was named for the " Joint Oceanographic Institutes Deep Earth Sampling" project, the name being approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1988. [1]
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74°30′S 174°0′E / 74.500°S 174.000°E
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