Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/64021
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishIce Bird PeakIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Peak 
Latitude 66° 7' 55.1" S (-66.13196°)  
Longitude 165° 56' 16.1" E (165.93781°)  
Min. Lat 66° 10' 19.6" S (-66.1721°)  
Min. Long 165° 47' 23.2" E (165.7898°)  
Max. Lat 66° 5' 7.5" S (-66.0854°)  
Max. Long 166° 4' 6.4" E (166.0684°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Additional information (en): This is a cone shaped feature, with crater at summit and steep sides (30 degrees). Minimum depth (m): 1600. Maximum depth (m): 3100. Total relief (m): 1500. Dimension/size: 12 km x 14 km.     
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-34.1. Proposer: A. Haanen, New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB). History: 2020.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Korean research vessel "Araon". Year of discovery: 2014. History: "Ice Bird" commemorates the name of the yacht in which David Henry Lewis (1917-2002), a Polynesian scholar and an expert in traditional Polynesian navigation, is reputed to have made the first single-handed circumnavigation of Antarctica.    
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Part of  Southern Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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