Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6338
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishDe Veuster SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 30° 22' 12.6" N (30.37017209°)  
Longitude 177° 34' 31.8" E (177.575489°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Corrected latitude/longitude (GEBCO October 2002 error: 30°15'0"N/177°30'0"E) Updated with GEBCO May 2014.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 30.370172; Long: 177.57549    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-6. Proposer: Jacqueline Mammerickx, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1985.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after Joseph de Veuster (1840-1889), a Belgium missionary who voluntarily exiled himself to a lifetime ministry in the leper colony of Molokai where he contracted the disease. He was known as Father Damien and has remained a popular and heroic figure in the history of Hawaii.     
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 30.25; Longitude: 177.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153167    
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Part of  North Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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