Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6685
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishEwing SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 23° 13' 57.4" S (-23.23259885°)  
Longitude 8° 17' 19.8" E (8.2888265°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -23.26666667; Long: 8.283333333    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Year of proposal: 1960    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: R/V Vema. Year of discovery: 1960. Origin of name: Maurice Ewing, sea-going marine geophysicist, was founder of LGO (L-DGO) at Colombia University, NY, in the late 1940s.    
Additional information (en): Adopted from the ACUF Gazetteer in 1985.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -23.333333; Longitude: 8.75    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153342    
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Part of  South Atlantic 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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