MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7105 |
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Name source |
English | Ruru Seamount | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Seamount(s) |
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Latitude |
17° 44' 0" S (-17.733333°) |
Longitude |
116° 11' 0" W (-116.183333°) |
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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 |
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -17.73333333; Long: -116.1833333 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. Proposer: Daniel Scheirer, Brown University, USA. Year of proposal: 1995. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Melville". Year of discovery: 1992. History: Ruru is a Pascuense term for "shake". There was a teleseismically detected earthquake swarm very near the associated ridge. |
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Additional information (en): 100% multibeam coverage (Seabeam 2000) and GPS navigation. |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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