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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/4891 |
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| English | Vasco da Gama Seamounts | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Seamount(s) |
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41° 20' 0" N (41.333333°) |
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11° 30' 0" W (-11.5°) |
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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: 41.33333333; Long: -11.5 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-13. Proposer: Jean-René Vanney, University of Paris IV, France. Year of proposal: 1999. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after the Portuguese explorer Dom Vasco da Gama (c. 1460-1524). He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitiv |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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