Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7546
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishApitoka RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishApitoka Seamount ChainUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 18° 39' 31" S (-18.65861477°)  
Longitude 117° 20' 30.4" W (-117.34177806°)  
Min. Lat 18° 43' 0" S (-18.7167°)  
Min. Long 117° 40' 0" W (-117.6667°)  
Max. Lat 18° 36' 0" S (-18.6°)  
Max. Long 117° 1' 0" W (-117.0167°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. Proposer: Daniel Scheirer, Brown University, USA. Year of proposal: 1995.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Melville". Year of discovery: 1992. History: Apitoka is a Pascuense term for "fresh lava". This ridge is surrounded by young lava flows, imaged by side scan sonar.    
Additional information (en): 100% multibeam coverage (Seabeam 2000) and GPS navigation. Shown as Apitoka Seamount Chain in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -18.666667; Longitude: -117.333333    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 186256    
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Part of  South Pacific 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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