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Rosalind Bank, also called Rosalinda or Rosa Linda Bank (), Derrotero de las islas Antillas y de las costas orientales de América p. 333 is a large, completely ocean bank or atoll in the western Caribbean Sea. It is the culmination of an area of coral reef, some long, that extends eastward from Cabo Gracias a Dios. The bank area is part of an extensive structure, known as Nicaragua Rise, that continues further east through Pedro Bank towards Jamaica.
Several patches of depths from lie on a long coral ledge located within the southeast edge of the bank. A detached patch lies near the southwest edge of the bank, west of the southern end of this ledge. A depth of lies close to the northern edge of the bank.
An extensive bank long and wide, with an area of , lies west of Rosalind Bank. Depths over this bank range from . The shallowest detached patches are found along the eastern edge of the bank. A detached patch lies on the northern part of the bank. further west lies Thunder Knoll.
southeast of Rosalind Bank is [[Serranilla Bank]]. The [[cay]]s on it are the closest pieces of dry land.
Until a 1986 treaty between Honduras and Colombia determined the two nations' maritime boundary in the area, Colombia claimed Rosalinda Bank as part of the San Andrés archipelago, along with Serranilla Bank. Under the treaty, however, Colombia accepted a boundary that placed Rosalind within Honduras's exclusive economic zone. Nicaragua objected to the 1986 maritime decision as it ignored Nicaraguan claims to the area.
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