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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/33579
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishSão Luís GuyotIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Guyot 
Latitude 0° 40' 33.2" S (-0.67589°)  
Longitude 42° 5' 19.9" W (-42.08886°)  
Min. Lat 0° 54' 22.3" S (-0.9062°)  
Min. Long 42° 19' 25.7" W (-42.3238°)  
Max. Lat 0° 26' 26.9" S (-0.4408°)  
Max. Long 41° 51' 22.3" W (-41.8562°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-26. Proposer: Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN), Brazil. Year of proposal: 2013.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Brazilian survey vessel "Almirante Câmara". Year of discovery: 1989. History: Named from the nearby Brazilian city of São Luís.    
Additional information (en): This feature has a conical shape and a flat top. It is part of the Maranhao Seamounts. The name has been in use since the 1980´s and mentioned in many scientific papers and publications, for instance for LEPLAC (Brazilian Continental Shelf Project). Minim    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -0.7263 ; Long: -42.122 (update 2020-04-22)    
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Part of  South Atlantic 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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