Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
The deep region lying between the Scottish and Irish continental shelves and the Rockall Bank is known by two names, the Rockall Channel and the Rockall Trough. Nansen (1913) refers to the Rockall Channel as the route of the “Gulf Stream” (Krummel's Irish Current) northeastwards through the Faeroe-Shetland Channel. The name “Rockall Trough” was adopted later, principally by the geologists and is in more general use today by all disciplines. The term is given precedence in this Bibliography.