Orca Seamount is a seamount (underwater volcano) near King George Island in Antarctica, in the Bransfield Strait. While it is inactive,[citation needed]...
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of submerged seamounts of volcanic origin, including the presently inactive Orca Seamount. However last volcanic activity at Orca Seamount is judged to...
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United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 11 August 2018. "Orca Seamount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey...
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List of submarine volcanoes (redirect from List of seamounts by summit depth)
extinct submarine volcanoes and seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans. Almost...
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129 ft) deep Orca Seamount and 75-metre (246 ft) deep Humpback Seamount, the southern of Saunders Island itself, 276-metre (906 ft) deep Fin Seamount and 400-metre...
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Outline of oceanography (section Seamounts)
the Belgica Lichtner Seamount – A seamount in the Southern Ocean Maud Seamount – A seamount in the Southern Ocean Orca Seamount – Underwater volcano near...
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Bowie Seamount area, including Steller sea lions, orca, humpback and sperm whales, along with 16 varieties of seabirds. This has made Bowie Seamount a rare...
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Strait have been localized to Orca seamount and Bridgeman Island. In 2022, acoustic anomalies were identified at a seamount southeast of Bridgeman Island...
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stratovolcanoes, while 7 additional submarine volcanoes exist as seamounts, with the Orca Seamount being the largest (20 km diameter base). The main factor that...
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habitats. Droplines have the potential to interact with orcas (killer whales). There is predation by orcas on commercial longline and dropline fish catches,...
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Southern Ocean, feeding on shrimp and smaller fish, and preyed on by whales, orcas, and seals. It is caught for food and marketed as Chilean sea bass together...
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the southern Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and Southern Ocean on seamounts and continental shelves around most Subantarctic islands. The average...
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sand and/or hard coral; may be permanent or tidal (i.e. surfaced reef or seamount); and may exist in the sea, lakes, rivers or any other sizeable bodies...
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oceanic crust forms large oceanic basins with features like abyssal plains, seamounts, submarine volcanoes, oceanic trenches, submarine canyons, oceanic plateaus...
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They are promiscuous breeders, with both sexes having multiple partners. Orcas are the main natural predators of humpback whales. Like other large whales...
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incorporated in accretionary wedges include: Ocean-floor basalts – typically seamounts scraped off the subducting plate Pelagic sediments – typically immediately...
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photograph Inkling's long-lost cousin, the giant squid. 7 7 "Octonauts and the Orcas" Kwazii Barnacles (briefly) 12 October 2010 (2010-10-12) 5 February 2011...
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lions feed on a number of species of fish and squid, and are preyed on by orcas and great white sharks. California sea lions have a polygynous breeding...
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migrating fish by corralling them into "bait balls". Meanwhile, in Monterey Bay, orca were documented attacking gray whales and killing a calf. Filming in the...
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given rise to a 3-kilometre-thick platform under the island chain and seamounts. Besides the Galápagos Archipelago, other key tectonic features in the...
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Pacific electric rays are founded in Japan, south Kuril Islands, and Kinmei Seamount; Wiah Point, Graham Island, northern British Columbia to Todos Santos,...
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Journal of Coastal Research. 9 (1): 11–25. JSTOR 4298067. ANNIE. 2012. Orca Whales Archived 2020-10-23 at the Wayback Machine. Costa Rica Scuba.com....
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waters off the edge of continental shelves, and bottom features, such as seamounts, canyons, escarpments, and oceanic islands, including the Azores and the...
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Ulleungdo, Oki Islands, pacific islands, atolls, seamounts, and guyots in lower latitude such as Ladd Seamount, north of Northern Mariana Islands, north of...
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subantarctic islands List of countries by southernmost point List of seamounts in the Southern Ocean Seven Seas International Bathymetric Chart of the...
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causing the formation of a ridge 100 m (330 ft) high on the sea floor. This seamount was named Surtla [ˈsʏr̥tla], but never reached sea level. Eruptions at...
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Littoral zone Oceanic trench Photic zone Seagrass meadow Mangrove swamp Seamount Tide pool Many animals and plants have taken up residence in urban environments...
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common "along shelf edges and in areas with sharp bottom relief such as seamounts and escarpments". Common dolphins have a varied diet consisting of many...
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deeper layers where the Kuroshio Current flows over shallow areas and seamounts. This process occurs over the Okinawa Trough and the Tokara Strait. The...
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Their colors are green and white. Formerly members of the now defunct Seamount League, Evergreen is a member of the Mountain Division of the 2A South...
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