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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/58735 |
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| English | Whippoorwill Seamount | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Seamount(s) |
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15° 32' 34" N (15.542778°) |
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171° 30' 41" W (-171.511389°) |
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US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF), available online at http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/acuf.html |
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Additional information (en): A seamount located southwest of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Named for the USS Whippoorwill (AM-35), which, as part of the Tanager Expedition, conducted biological surveys of the Hawaiian Islands in 1923-24. This feature name was proposed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Oceanography. Approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names at USBGN Meeting 273; 17 July 2018. |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14619528 |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 15.54; Long:-171.51 (update 2020-07-28) |
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Last edited on 2019-05-21 01:34:02 by Lonneville Britt
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