Ampère Seamount is a

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in the Atlantic Ocean, south-west of Portugal and west of Morocco. It is located at 35°04'N and 12°57'W. This

is about 90 × 40 km, its base is at a depth of approximately . The summit topography is rather disturbed with a summit plateau that is at a depth of and a peak reaching up to below the water surface. In March 1974,

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research ship ''Academician Petrovsky'' underwent an expedition to explore the Ampere and Josephine seamounts. Underwater photographs taken during this expedition revealed a stone wall which included cut stone blocks scattered on both sides, Also what appear to be artificial steps partially covered with

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were photographed on the flat summit of the Ampere Seamount. This was the grounds for speculation that it may have been the location of the legendary

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References

External links

Hatzky, Jörn (2005), PANGAEA: Physiography of the Ampère Seamount in the Horseshoe Seamount chain off Gibraltar. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven

Marine Regions · Ampère Seamount

Published: 02 October 2014 The fish fauna of Ampère Seamount (NE Atlantic) and the adjacent abyssal plain Bernd Christiansen, Rui P. Vieira, Sabine Christiansen, Anneke Denda, Frederico Oliveira & Jorge M. S. Gonçalves Helgoland Marine Research

Seamount Information: Ampere Seamount

Biodiversity Inventorial Atlas of macrobenthic seamount animals, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg

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