Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/58614
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishChochin-anko SpurIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishChōchin’ankō SpurUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Spur 
Latitude 21° 14' 37.2" N (21.243675°)  
Longitude 156° 53' 10.5" E (156.88626°)  
Min. Lat 20° 58' 30.4" N (20.9751°)  
Min. Long 156° 41' 44.9" E (156.6958°)  
Max. Lat 21° 30' 44" N (21.5122°)  
Max. Long 157° 4' 36.2" E (157.0767°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Additional information (en): This feature has an elongated and triangular shape. The single position is that of the shallowest point. Minimum depth (m): 2530. Maximum depth (m): 5051. Total relief (m): 2521. Dimension/size: 40 km × 55 km.    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-31. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). History: 2018.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessel "Takuyo". Year of discovery: 1999. History: Named from its shape as this feature looks like an anglerfish (a deepsea fish), "Chochin-anko" in Japanese, when associated with the adjacent Maloney Guyot and Hanzawa Guyot.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14988602    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 21.238814; Longitude: 156.888753    
Relation 
Part of  North Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2019-05-15 02:08:08 by Lonneville Britt
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