Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Orca Seamount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Orca Seamount (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: None recorded.
This name originates from . It is part of the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
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Proposer: O. Gonzalez-Ferran, Chile, 1999. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1999). Named after the cetacean Orcinus orca ("Killer Whale"), often sighted in these waters. First named by O. Gonzalez-Ferran, in a 1987 Cambridge University Symposium. Multibeam plots indicates that the feature is spectacularly cratered, hence the term "caldera".
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