Benares Shoal
- Landsat 7
- Path 145, Row 064
- 01 April 2003
Benares Shoal is a small and elongated submerged bank formation located 6 km northwest from the atoll of Peros Banhos (just visible at the bottom-left of the above image). The bank measures 3 km in length (orientated northwest to southeast) and is around 700 m across.
image: millenium coral reefs landsat archive/usf millenium global coral reef mapping project/nasa seawifs/nasa jsc