Ganges Bank

Ganges Bank

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

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