Locality
89°34´ east longitude, 21°21´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Shelf of Bangladesh, Bangladesh

Historical relevance of location
Sand transported during a tropical cyclone which 1971 drowned 250,000 inhabitants of southern Bangladesh.

Classification of the earth

Structure	fine sand
Colour	grey
Age	deposited in 1971
other	228 m waterdepth

Donor

Dr. Hermann-Rudolf Kudraß,
 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Hannover,
 Germany