| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6338 |
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| English | De Veuster Seamount | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Seamount(s) |
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| Latitude |
30° 22' 12.6" N (30.37017209°) |
| Longitude |
177° 34' 31.8" E (177.575489°) |
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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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(en): Corrected latitude/longitude (GEBCO October 2002 error: 30°15'0"N/177°30'0"E)
Updated with GEBCO May 2014. |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 30.370172; Long: 177.57549 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 30.25; Longitude: 177.5 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153167 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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