Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/58695
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishO-Hakucho-no-Tamago SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishŌhakuchō no Tamago SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 23° 12' 57" N (23.21583°)  
Longitude 148° 52' 30" E (148.875°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Additional information (en): This feature has an almost conical shape. Minami-Tori Shima Island, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, and the easternmost land territory of Japan. Minimum depth (m): 2638. Maximum depth (m): 5756. Total relief (m): 3118. Dimension/size: 20 km × 15 km.    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-31. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). History: 2018.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessel "Shoyo". Year of discovery: 2001. History: Named from its geographical position, close to O-Hakucho Guyot. "O-Hakucho-no-Tamago" means "an egg of a big swan" in Japanese ("O" for Big and "Hakusho" for Swan). A series of Seamounts and Guyots around the nearby Minami-Tori Shima Island (literally "Southern Bird Island" in Japanese) have been given bird names. The situation of O-Hakucho Guyot and O-Hakucho-no-Tamago Seamount, with the seamount much smaller than the guyot, is like a bird with its egg.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14988687    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 23.226161; Longitude: 148.864875    
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Part of  North Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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