Marine Regions · Ptolémée Seamount (Seamount(s))

Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID

http://marineregions.org/mrgid/49755

Status

Proposed standard

Name

Language	Name	Name source
English	Ptolémée Seamount	IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names

PlaceType

Seamount(s)

Latitude

22° 0' 0" S (-22°)

Longitude

40° 6' 0" E (40.1°)

Source

IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/

Notes

GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-29. Proposer: Stéphan Jorry, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER). Year of proposal: 2015.

GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: French research vessel "L'Atalante". Year of discovery: 2014. History: Claudius Ptolemy (Ptolémée, in French), a Greek astronomer and astrologer (90 to 168 A.D.), was the first to produce planispheres including the oceans. He also created the first map projection. The first copy of "Geography by Ptolemy" was published with the maps in Bologna in 1477. This book was, up until the XVIth Century, the guide for all travellers who, at each discovery, believed they recognized places already indicated in the book. "Ptolémée" was also the name of the oceanographic campaign which led to the discovery of this undersea feature in 2014.

Additional information (en): This feature has a conical shape with steepness of 10°. The Plolémée campaign was part of the PAMELA research project (Passive Margins Exploration Laboratories), jointly coordinated by Ifremer and Total. Minimum depth (m): 773. Maximum depth (m): 2790. Total relief (m): 2017. Dimension: 19 km in diameter.

ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 15237303

Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -21.991167; Longitude: 40.101056

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