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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7684
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishKita-Kyowa SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishKita Kyōwa SeamountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 28° 29' 30" N (28.491667°)  
Longitude 138° 46' 36" E (138.776667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 28.49166667; Long: 138.7766667    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). Year of proposal: 2000.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Kyowa designates an era of the Japan history ("Kita" means "North", in Japanese).    
Additional information (en): This feature has an irregular summit. Taken from Japanese Bathymetric Chart No. 6725. Shown as Kita-Kyôwa Seamount in the ACUF Gazetteer. Minimum depth (m): 2200. Maximum depth (m): 3400. Total relief (m): 1200.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 28.483333; Longitude: 138.766667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 382475    
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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