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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/49788
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishMinami-Shimoji SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishMinamishimoji SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishMinami-ShimojiUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 23° 5' 0.9" N (23.08359°)  
Longitude 125° 9' 45.4" E (125.16261°)  
Min. Lat 23° 1' 40.4" N (23.0279°)  
Min. Long 125° 5' 45.3" E (125.0959°)  
Max. Lat 23° 8' 23" N (23.1397°)  
Max. Long 125° 13' 27.8" E (125.2244°)  
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-29. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). Year of proposal: 2016.     
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessel "Takuyo". Year of discovery: 1997. History: Named from the nearby Shimoji Island, which is located to the west of Miyako Island, one of the major islands of the Sakishima Islands, Japan. "Minami" means "south" in Japanese (the feature is in the south of Shimoji I.).    
Additional information (en): The single position is that of the summit. Minimum depth (m): 5049. Maximum depth (m): 6600. Total relief (m): 1551. Dimension: 10 km x 10 km.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 23.08359 ; Long: 125.16261 (update 2020-04-22)    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 15454012    
Relation 
Part of  Philippine Sea (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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