Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/57149
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishZitan GuyotIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Guyot 
Latitude 19° 44' 53.9" N (19.7483°)  
Longitude 171° 54' 54" E (171.915°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Chinese research vessel "Dayang Yihao". Year of discovery: 2001. History: The term "Zitan", which means a tall prosperous red sandalwood in the garden, comes from a poem known as Heming in Shijing·Xiaoya. Shijing is a collection of ancient Chinese Poems from the 11th to 6th centuries BC. Heming is a scenic and lyric poetry. One poem depicts a landscape painting, with a combination of green mountain, deep river, flying crane, grey trees, ...    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-30. Proposer: China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association (COMRA). History: 2017.    
Additional information (en): This feature has a nearly elliptic shape, a flat top platform and steep slopes. Minimum depth (m): 1166. Maximum depth (m): 3900. Total relief (m): 2734. Dimension: 43 km x 26 km    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 15175846    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 19.7483; Longitude: 171.915    
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Part of  North Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2018-09-13 16:53:11 by Lonneville Britt
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