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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/26640
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishForster SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 37° 29' 4.9" S (-37.4847°)  
Longitude 93° 13' 5.9" W (-93.2183°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -37.484667; Long: -93.2183    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-24. Proposer: Hans Werner Schenke, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 2011.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: German research vessel "Sonne". Year of discovery: 2011. History: Named after Johann Georg Adam Forster (1754-1794), a German Naturalist, ethnologist, Travel writer, Journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on     
Additional information (en): Discovered during Expedition SO213/1 (T. Dufek). This feature has an oval shape east west directions and steepness of 20%. Minimum depth (m): 1858. Maximum depth (m): 3163. Total relief (m): 1305. Dimension: 10 km × 6 km.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -37.485 ; Long: -93.218 (update 2020-04-22)    
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Part of  South Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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