Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5999
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishCapricorn GuyotIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishCapricorn TablemountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishDisappointment SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishDisappointment TablemountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianGora KaprikornUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianГора КаприкорнUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishCapricorn SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Guyot 
Latitude 18° 40' 0" S (-18.666667°)  
Longitude 172° 10' 0" W (-172.166667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -18.66666667; Long: -172.1666667    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1952.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Horizon". Year of discovery: 1952. History: Named from the "Capricorn Expedition" (1952-53), during which this shallow guyot, on the east flank of Tonga Trench, was first explored and mapped by SIO's research vessel "Hori    
Additional information (en): Shown as Capricorn Tablemount in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -18.583333; Longitude: -172.2    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152812    
Relation 
Part of  South Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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