Brazil
Columbia Bank is a conical, flat-topped seamount on the Vitória-Trindade Chain, with a relief of about 3,750 m and a base of roughly 28 km by 25 km. It was discovered in 1972 by the US research vessel Robert D. Conrad. The name was proposed by the Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center in August 2009, accepted by the GEBCO committee for undersea feature names, and honours Columbia University, in the United States, which carried out many surveys along the Vitória-Trindade Chain. In February 2011, divers studied a section of the bank, which was classified as mesophotic, a low-light zone.
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