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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6944 |
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| English | Myojin-Syo Caldera | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Caldera |
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31° 53' 0" N (31.883333°) |
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139° 59' 0" E (139.983333°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Kunio Yashima, Japan Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department (JHOD). Year of proposal: 2001. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the Japanese fishing vessel "Myojin-Syo" that reported by radio the eruption of the submarine volcano at this position in October 1952. As a result, the Japanese survey vessel "Kaiyo-maru no. 5" moved to that site to make observations. |
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Additional information (en): The usually-exposed reef like Bayonnaise Rocks, of hypersthene-augite-anorthite basalt, lie on the southwest rim of this caldera. |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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