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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/24938
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishKertz SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 55° 30' 54" S (-55.515°)  
Longitude 42° 42' 12" W (-42.70333333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -55.52; Long: -42.7    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-19. Proposer: Heinrich Hinze, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 2006.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: German research vessel "Polarstern". Year of discovery: 2005. History: Named after Walter Kertz (1924-1997), a German geophysicist who contributed to the understanding of the atmospheric tides. He developed a method to separate the internal an    
Additional information (en): This feature has an elongated shape. Minimum depth (m): 2025. Maximum depth (m): 3100. Total relief (m): 1075. Dimension: 14 km x 4.1 km.    
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Part of  South Atlantic 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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