MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/26640 |
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Name source |
English | Forster Seamount | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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PlaceType |
Seamount(s) |
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Latitude |
37° 29' 4.9" S (-37.4847°) |
Longitude |
93° 13' 5.9" W (-93.2183°) |
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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: -37.484667; Long: -93.2183 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -37.485 ; Long: -93.218 (update 2020-04-22) |
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Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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