Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6922
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishPlibersek SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 10° 34' 36" S (-10.576667°)  
Longitude 153° 43' 48" E (153.73°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -10.57666667; Long: 153.73    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-13. Proposer: Ray A. Binns, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia. Year of proposal: 1998.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Moana Wave". Year of discovery: 1997. History: Named after the Australian geologist Philip Plibersek (murdered, Port Moresby, October 1997).    
Additional information (en): The feature is the highest and north-eastern of a cluster of four presumed off-axis volcanic knolls lying south of the Woodlark Spreading Zone.    
Relation 
Part of  Solomon Sea (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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