Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6072
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishKing George SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 27° 56' 19.6" N (27.93876593°)  
Longitude 171° 3' 20.4" W (-171.0556803°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 27.96666667; Long: -171.0666667    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-11. Proposer: Barbara H. Keating and Loren Kroenke, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Year of proposal: 1995.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Name of an early ship visiting Hawaii in 1786. Hawaiian Registry, Judd, B. (1974): "Voyages to Hawaii before 1860", Univ. Hawaii, Press, Honolulu, p. 1.    
Additional information (en): Presented in a paper by Kroenke, Campbell, and Keating (1987): "Morphology of Seamounts Within the Hawaiian Exclusive Economic Zone - How Volcanoes Work", symposium abstract.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 27.75; Longitude: -171    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 45485    
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Part of  North Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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