| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/63424 |
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| English | Palma Seamount | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Seamount(s) |
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| Latitude |
20° 25' 22.9" S (-20.42302°) |
| Longitude |
30° 43' 8" W (-30.7189°) |
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20° 32' 28.6" S (-20.5413°) |
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30° 49' 54.6" W (-30.8318°) |
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20° 18' 31.4" S (-20.3087°) |
| Max. Long |
30° 36' 5.8" W (-30.6016°) |
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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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| Notes |
Additional information (en): This feature has a conical shape. Minimum depth (m): 3306. Maximum depth (m): 4768. Total relief (m): 1462. Dimension/size: 30 km x 28 km. |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-34. Proposer: Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN), Brazil. History: 2020. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Vema". Year of discovery: 1962. History: Named after Jorge Jesus Cunha Palma (1942-2020), a Brazilian geologist. He was a pioneer in marine geology studies and contributed to defining the maritime limits of Brazil and to increasing knowledge in the Brazilian continental margin. |
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Last edited on 2021-09-02 22:35:14 by Lonneville Britt
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