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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/33467
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishMasuboshi SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 17° 16' 10.2" N (17.2695°)  
Longitude 134° 43' 19.9" E (134.7222°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Coordinates calculated from feature    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 17.253096; Long: 134.671344; minLat: 17.1317; minLong: 134.5643; maxLat: 17.3528; maxLong: 134.7808    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-26. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). Year of proposal: 2013.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessel "Takuyo". Year of discovery: 1997. History: Masuboshi is one of the archaic poetic Japanese names that means the Big Dipper (or Plough) constellation. According to Japanese phonology, both terms "hoshi" and "boshi" mean     
Relation 
Part of  Philippine Sea (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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