• 7.0683°N 176.8250°W / 7.0683; -176.8250Magellan Rise is an oceanic plateau in the Pacific Ocean, which covers a surface area of 500,000 square kilometres...
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  • Magellan Rise may refer to: Magellan Rise (ocean plateau), an oceanic plateau in the Pacific Ocean. Magellan Rise, New Zealand, a suburb of Hamilton,...
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  • Oceanic Plateau east of the Marshall Islands North Magellan Rise - Ocean floor feature south west of Hawaii and east of the Marshall Islands Magellan...
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    (Caribbean) Exmouth Plateau (Indian) Hikurangi Plateau (Southwest Pacific) Iceland Plateau (North Atlantic) Kerguelen Plateau (Indian) Magellan Rise (Pacific) Manihiki...
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    southwestward to the Macquarie Triple Junction Magellan Rise (ocean plateau) – An oceanic plateau in the Pacific Ocean Mid-Pacific Mountains – An underwater mountain...
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  • McNutt proposed that the Darwin Rise is a palaeo-superswell. Geology of the Pacific Ocean Magellan Rise (ocean plateau) Stein & Stein c. 1999, Figure 1:...
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    Kamchatka The Shatsky Rise is Earth's third largest oceanic plateau, (after Ontong Java and Kerguelen) located in the north-west Pacific Ocean 1,500 km (930 mi)...
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    developed into the largest oceanic plate on Earth. The East Pacific Rise near Easter Island is the fastest spreading mid-ocean ridge, with a spreading rate...
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    The Manihiki Plateau is an oceanic plateau in the south-west Pacific Ocean. The Manihiki Plateau was formed by volcanic activity 126 to 116 million years...
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    the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and many bodies of water that connect them, such as the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle...
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    Antarctic Plate (category Geology of the Pacific Ocean)
    continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and some remote islands in the Southern Ocean and other surrounding oceans. After breakup from Gondwana (the...
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    uncertainty in century-scale projections of sea level rise, and the same melting also affects the Southern Ocean overturning circulation, which can eventually...
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    Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc (category Geology of the Pacific Ocean)
    (Winterer et al. 1993): the Marcus Island–Wake Island-Ogasawara Plateau, the Magellan Seamounts Chain, and the Caroline Islands Ridge. The first two chains...
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    around the Strait of Magellan. This strait is one of the world's important sea-lanes because it unites the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through a channel...
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  • Miocene (section Oceans)
    Chile Triple Junction lay near the Strait of Magellan. As the southern part of Nazca Plate and the Chile Rise became consumed by subduction the more northerly...
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    occur at all elevations, from the sea floor to plateaus and mountain ranges in continental crust or in oceanic crust. They are often associated with a number...
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    South American–Antarctic Ridge (category Underwater ridges of the Atlantic Ocean)
    in the Chile Trench at 46°S to the western Straits of Magellan at 52°S. Since 15 Ma, the oceanic crust of the Antarctic plate is being slowly subducted...
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  • katabatic wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast in South Africa. Cape Doctor, often persistent and dry south-easterly...
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  • Vlinder Guyot (category Seamounts of the Pacific Ocean)
    Alba, companion of Ferdinand Magellan. Other names are Dalmorgeo, MAGL-3, MA-15, or Vlinder. The Western Pacific Ocean contains a large number of mountains...
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    from Europe, Magellan offered his services to King Charles I of Spain (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor). On September 20, 1519, Magellan led five ships...
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    resurfacing event would have been volcanic flows. Radar sounding by the Magellan probe revealed evidence for comparatively recent volcanic activity at Venus's...
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    influenced by humid air masses moving in from the Pacific Ocean which lose most of their moisture as they rise over the Andes. The flora is dominated by trees,...
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    evidence for another abrupt rise in the sea level about 14,500 years ago. Glacier fluctuations around the Strait of Magellan suggest the peak in glacial...
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    not Venus is still volcanically active. However, radar sounding by the Magellan probe revealed evidence for comparatively recent volcanic activity at Venus's...
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    Laurence M. Gould from Punta Arenas, Chile. The course follows the Straits of Magellan to the east, then south along the coast of Argentina, past Cape Horn, then...
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    Mindanao (section Plateaus)
    Antonio Pigafetta wrote an account of reaching 'Maingdano.' He was with Magellan on the first circumnavigation of the globe and sailing for the king of...
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    suggested that all glaciers of Gran Campo Nevado next to the Strait of Magellan reached their largest extent of the whole Holocene epoch during the Little...
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    radius. The altimetry experiment of Magellan confirmed the general character of the landscape. According to the Magellan data, 80% of the topography is within...
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    "tesserae." The most recent data concerning tessera terrain comes from the Magellan Mission, in which the majority of Venus's surface was mapped in high resolution...
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    Ioah Guyot (category Seamounts of the Pacific Ocean)
    Ioah Ioah Guyot is a seamount in the Pacific Ocean, close to the Marshall Islands. Part of the Magellan Seamounts, it is a shield volcano that has erupted...
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