Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7037
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishWordie CalderaIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishWordie SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Caldera 
Latitude 61° 48' 0" S (-61.8°)  
Longitude 55° 27' 0" W (-55.45°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Corrected longitude (GEBCO October 2002 error: 55°27'0"E) Updated with GEBCO May 2014.    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Stanley Robertson, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Year of proposal: 2000.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after James Wordie, who was the geologist on Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antartica. They possibly drifted over this feature en route to Elephant Island.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Wordie Seamount in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9146378    
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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