Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6766
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishAfanasij Nikitin SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishAfanasia Nikitin SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishAfanasii NikitinUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishAfanasiy NikitinUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishAfanasiy Nikitin MassifUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishAfanasy Nikitin SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianGora Afanasiya NikitinaUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishNikitin SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianГора Афанасия НикитинаUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 3° 2' 2.1" S (-3.0339188°)  
Longitude 83° 5' 19.2" E (83.08867328°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -3; Long: 83.16666667    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-25. Proposer: L. K. Zatonskij and V. F. Kanaev, Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IO RAS). Year of proposal: 1961.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Russian research vessel "Vityaz". Year of discovery: 1959. History: Named after Afanasij Nikitin, a XVth century Russian traveller who, in 1471-1474, reached the Indian Ocean, moving from Moscow through the Volga River, Caspian and Mediterrane    
Additional information (en): Shown as Nikitin Seamount in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -3; Longitude: 83    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154666    
Relation 
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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