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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/57163 |
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| English | Savaqatigiik Seamount | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Seamount(s) |
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| Latitude |
81° 30' 53.4" N (81.51484°) |
| Longitude |
134° 31' 58.5" W (-134.53293°) |
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81° 23' 11.3" N (81.3865°) |
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134° 53' 20.1" W (-134.8889°) |
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81° 37' 52" N (81.6311°) |
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134° 8' 19.5" W (-134.1387°) |
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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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Additional information (en): avaqatigiik Seamount is located in the region of the Northern Canada Basin in the Arctic Ocean. Feature Description: Max depth: 3,770m; Min depth: 2,638m, Total Relief: 1,132m. Survey vessels: USCG Icebreaker ‘Healy’ and Canadian Icebreaker ‘Louis S. St. Laurent’. Meaning: ‘Savaqatigiik’; ‘cooperation’ in the Inupiak dialect of Alaska. The seamount was discovered on a U.S./Canadian collaborative mission with support from the native community. Submitted by: Larry Mayer, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Univ. Of New Hampshire; Andy Armstrong, NOAA Joint Hydrographic Center, University of NH; and David Mosher, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geological Survey-Atlantic, Bedford Inst of Oceanography. Approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names at USBGN Meeting 271; 17 Oct. 2017. |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14457402 |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 81.52617; Long: -134.48 |
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Additional information (en): This feature has an average steepness of 13-15 deg, with some parts over 20 deg. Minimum depth (m): 2638. Maximum depth (m): 3770. Total relief (m): 1132. Dimension/size: 14 M long x 4 M wide. |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-31. Proposer: Larry Mayer, Andy Armstrong and David Mosher, CCOM University of New Hampshire, USA. History: 2017. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker (USCGC) "Healy" and Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker (CCGS) "Louis S. St-Laurent". Year of discovery: 2009. History: The name means "Cooperation" in Inuktitut, one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. This feature was discovered on a U.S./Canadian collaborative mission with support from the native community. The name expresses the scientific cooperation and collaboration needed to discover features such as this one, as well as respect for and collaboration with the native community. |
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Last edited on 2020-07-06 13:30:49 by Lonneville Britt
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