Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/58629
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishKita-Tennosei SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishKitatennōsei SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 19° 45' 37.1" N (19.7603°)  
Longitude 136° 5' 2.4" E (136.084°)  
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 shape. All undersea features located around the Kyushu-Palau Ridge are named from stars and planets. Minimum depth (m): 2560. Maximum depth (m): 4066. Total relief (m): 1506. Dimension/size: 5 km × 10 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: 1994. History: Named from its geographical location as this feature is located to the north of Tennesei Seamount ("Kita" is the Japanese for north). "Tennesei" means Uranus in Japanese.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14988627    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 19.773264; Longitude: 136.072753    
Relation 
Part of  Philippine Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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