Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6441
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishBatavia RiseIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishBatavia KnollUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishBatavia SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Rise 
Latitude 25° 40' 0" S (-25.666667°)  
Longitude 100° 30' 0" E (100.5°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -25.66666667; Long: 100.5    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1981.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Vema". Year of discovery: 1959. History: Named from the ship "Batavia", most famous of VOC (Dutch East India Company, VOC = Verrenigde Oost-Indisch Companie) vessels. Commodore Francis Pelsaert was Captain. Wrecked (1629)    
Additional information (en): Formerly, Batavia Seamount. Shown as Batavia Seamount in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -25.75; Longitude: 100.333333    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152532    
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Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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