Ganges Bank

Ganges Bank
  • Landsat 7
  • Path 145, Row 065
  • 25 February 2002

Situated around 30 km southwest from Pitt Bank and 135 km west from Diego Garcia, the Ganges Bank is a small and irregularly-shaped submarine bank formation of some 5 km across. Minimum depths over the bank are in the region of 10 to 12 m.


image: millenium coral reefs landsat archive/usf millenium global coral reef mapping project/nasa seawifs/nasa jsc