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- ↑ Meredyk, Shawn P.; Edinger, Evan; Piper, David J. W.; Huvenne, Veerle A. I.; Hoy, Shannon; Ruffman, Alan (2020). "Enigmatic Deep-Water Mounds on the Orphan Knoll, Labrador Sea". Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00744 . hdl: 1983/7fd00252-ffd7-481b-9e4d-52a9b03911b4 . ISSN 2296-7745.
- ↑ Government of Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (January 16, 2019). "Advisory Committee on Undersea Feature Names" . Retrieved February 10, 2022.
- ↑ "Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs): Orphan Knoll". The Clearing-House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CHM). June 12, 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
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