The Corner Rise Seamounts are a chain of extinct submarine volcanoes in the northern Atlantic Ocean east of the New England Seamounts.
Both it and the New England Seamounts were formed when the North American Plate moved over the Great Meteor hotspot 75 million years ago.
[1][2] It is the shallowest seamount in New England, with some of its nineteen highest peaks only 800–900 m deep.
[3] Almost a decade into the ban, a 2005 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution survey found that two of the peaks, Kükenthal and Yakutat, had been stripped bare of both corals and bottom-dwelling animals.
[4][5] However the survey, which covered both the Corner Rise and New England Seamounts, found 270 species of invertebrates and crustaceans, including 70 species unique to the Corner Rise Seamounts.