Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6457
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishCirce PeakIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishCirce SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Peak 
Latitude 18° 3' 24" S (-18.056667°)  
Longitude 65° 33' 12" E (65.553333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-10. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1993.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Argo". Year of discovery: 1968. History: Named from the 1968-69 round-the-world "Circe Expedition", of the U.S. Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), during which this peak and others nearby were discovered and explo    
Additional information (en): Shown as Circe Seamount in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -18.05; Longitude: 65.55    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 11210    
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Part of  Indian 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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