Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/49813
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishGiggenbach SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 30° 2' 16.3" S (-30.03785°)  
Longitude 178° 43' 11.4" W (-178.71983°)  
Min. Lat 30° 4' 52.3" S (-30.0812°)  
Min. Long 178° 46' 4.7" W (-178.768°)  
Max. Lat 29° 59' 38.2" S (-29.994°)  
Max. Long 178° 40' 21.6" W (-178.6727°)  
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: Mark Dyer, New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB); and Adam Greenland, New Zealand Hydrographic Office (LINZ). Year of proposal: 2016.     
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: New Zealand research vessel "Tangaroa". Year of discovery: 1982. History: Named after the eminent geochemist/vulcanologist Dr Werner Giggenbach (Augsburg, Germany, 1937 - Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, 1997). Dr Giggenbach (FRS) was one of the world's foremost gas geochemists who worked for the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) and GNS Science, and conducted extensive studies on gas emissions from New Zealand and overseas volcanoes.    
Additional information (en): This feature forms a volcanic cone. It is located 35 km NW of Macauley Island in the Kermadec volcanic arc. Minimum depth (m): 65. Maximum depth (m): 1250. Total relief (m): 1185. Dimension: 10 km x 10 km.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -30.03785 ; Long: -178.71983 (update 2020-04-22)    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 15237090    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -30.037861; Longitude: -178.719833    
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