Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7005
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishOrca SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishViehoff SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 62° 26' 0" S (-62.433333°)  
Longitude 58° 24' 0" W (-58.4°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -62.43333333; Long: -58.4    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-13. Proposer: Oscar González-Ferrán, University of Chile. Year of proposal: 1999.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the cetacean orcinus "orca" (killer whale), often sighted in these waters.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9032514    
Relation 
Part of  Southern 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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