Antarctic Bottom Water is formed along the fringes of Antarctica and fills much of the abyssal oceans. Data from moored instruments and tagged marine mammals confirm an unexpected site of bottom water formation at Cape Darnley, west of the Amery Ice Shelf.
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Meredith, M. Replenishing the abyss. Nature Geosci 6, 166–167 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1743
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