Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/8211
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishChirikof SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
RussianGora ChirikovaUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianГора ЧириковаUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 54° 52' 30" N (54.875°)  
Longitude 152° 50' 0" W (-152.833333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 54.875; Long: -152.8333333    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-6. Proposer: Galina V. Agapova, Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN RAS). Year of proposal: 1985.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby Chirikov island. The island itself was named after A. I. Chirikov (1703-1749), a Russian cartographer, who participated in expeditions (1725-1743), that discovered the coast of the North America and many islands in the North    
Additional information (en): Shown as Chirikof Seamount in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 54.833333; Longitude: -153    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152941    
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Part of  North 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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