| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/48839 |
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Name source |
| English | Kazahayahoshi Escarpment | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Escarpment |
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| Latitude |
15° 7' 17.9" N (15.121643°) |
| Longitude |
134° 28' 57.5" E (134.482646°) |
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14° 51' 34.2" N (14.8595°) |
| Min. Long |
134° 19' 23.9" E (134.3233°) |
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| Max. Lat |
15° 23' 25.8" N (15.3905°) |
| Max. Long |
134° 37' 26.7" E (134.6241°) |
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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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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-28. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). Year of proposal: 2015. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessel "Takuyo". Year of discovery: 2004. History: Named from the nearby Kazahayahoshi Seamount. "Kazahayahoshi" is a term of a traditional Japanese dialect meaning "Southern Cross". |
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Additional information (en): At around this latitude (15°N), the Southern Cross can be seen even in the Northern Hemisphere. Accordingly, a number of undersea features on and around Kyushu-Palau Ridge are named from Japanese traditional dialect terms designating the Southern Cross.To |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 14:57:37 by Oset Garcia Paula
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