MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7037 |
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Names |
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Name |
Name source |
English | Wordie Caldera | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
English | Wordie Seamount | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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PlaceType |
Caldera |
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Latitude |
61° 48' 0" S (-61.8°) |
Longitude |
55° 27' 0" W (-55.45°) |
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Source |
IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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Notes |
(en): Corrected longitude (GEBCO October 2002 error: 55°27'0"E)
Updated with GEBCO May 2014. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Additional information (en): Shown as Wordie Seamount in the ACUF Gazetteer. |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9146378 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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