Anton Dohrn Seamount, Submerged mountain in North Atlantic Ocean, Scotland
Anton Dohrn Seamount is a guyot, a type of extinct underwater volcano with a flat-topped summit, sitting in the Atlantic Ocean west of Scotland. The flat top sits at roughly 600 meters below the surface, rising steeply from the deeper ocean floor around it.
The seamount was identified and mapped in 1958 during a scientific expedition in the North Atlantic. It was named after Anton Dohrn, the German biologist who founded the Naples Zoological Station in 1872.
The seamount takes its name from Anton Dohrn, a 19th-century German biologist who founded the Naples marine research station. That connection links this remote underwater formation to a long tradition of European marine science.
Anton Dohrn Seamount is only reachable by research vessel and is not open to recreational divers or general visitors. Anyone interested in the site can find published findings through Scottish and British oceanographic institutions that have conducted surveys there.
The flat top of Anton Dohrn Seamount was formed by wave erosion on a volcano that once stood above sea level, then slowly sank over millions of years. That eroded surface now supports a network of cold-water coral that gives shelter to many deep-sea species found nowhere else nearby.
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