Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/58669
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishKo-Hitode SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishKohitode SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 22° 8' 58.2" N (22.1495°)  
Longitude 154° 34' 37.2" E (154.577°)  
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 almost conical and starfish-like shape. Minimum depth (m): 1503. Maximum depth (m): 5650. Total relief (m): 4147. Dimension/size: 40 km × 35 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 "Shoyo". Year of discovery: 1999. History: Named from its shape as this feature looks like a starfish, "Hitode" in Japanese. "Ko" is the Japanese for small or minor, meaning that "Ko-Hitode" refers to a small starfish.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14988630    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 22.144403; Longitude: 154.594925    
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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