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Georges Bank
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English
Etymology
The 1610 Velasco map, prepared for King James I of England, used the name S. Georges Banck, a common practice when the name of the English patron saint, Saint George, was sprinkled around the English-colonized world.
Proper noun
Georges bank
A large elevated area of the sea floor between Cape Cod, Massachusetts (United States), and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia (Canada), separating the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean.
en St. Georges Bank former name
en eponyms