| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6292 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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| English | Cape Johnson Guyot | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Cape Johnson Tablemount | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Cape Johnson Seamount | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Gora Keyp-Dzhonson | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Гора Кейп-Джонсон | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Guyot |
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| Latitude |
17° 8' 0" N (17.133333°) |
| Longitude |
177° 15' 0" W (-177.25°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 17.13333333; Long: -177.25 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Harry H. Hess, Princeton University, USA. Year of proposal: 1950. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from USS "Cape Johnson". Prof. Harry Hess (Princeton University) was her executive officer in the Western Pacific during WWII. His vessel, under his geological direction, made very great numbers of soundings on Cape Johnson's supply-ship op |
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Additional information (en): This flat-topped seamount is the type locality (and original) of a "guyot". Shown as Cape Johnson Tablemount in the ACUF Gazetteer. |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152797 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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