Mouchoir Bank

Mouchoir Bank
Native name:
Banco de Pañuelo Blanco
Submerged bank
Mouchoir Bank is located in Caribbean
Mouchoir Bank
Mouchoir Bank
Location with the Caribbean
Geography
LocationCaribbean
Coordinates20°57′00″N 70°42′00″W / 20.95000°N 70.70000°W / 20.95000; -70.70000
Area960 km2 (370 sq mi)
Administration
Additional information
Time zone
Nautical chart showing the Mouchoir Bank on the right between Turks Islands and Silver Bank
1773 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin showing leMouchoir Carré, tres peu connu = very little known as if with islands, which in reality do not exist

Mouchoir Bank, in Spanish also called Banco de Pañuelo Blanco, is a submerged bank that is part of the Turks and Caicos Islands and falls within its exclusive economic zone.

The bank, located southeast of the Turks islands, is the geographic continuation of the carbonate island archipelago comprising the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Silver Bank, and the Navidad Bank.[1]

  1. ^ Carew, James; Mylroie, John (1997). Vacher, H.L.; Quinn, T. (eds.). Geology of Bahamas, in Geology and Hydrology of Carbonate Islands, Developments in Sedimentology 54. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V. pp. 91-139. ISBN 9780444516442.