Seamount Distribution
type: Dataset
description: Dataset regarding 'Seamounts' - peaks that rise over 1,000 m above the seafloor. Seamount chains occur in all three major ocean basins, with the Pacific having the most number and most extensive seamount chains.
language: en
date created: 21-07-2021T03:07:03.0
date modified: 16-07-2025T22:07:50.0
publisher: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
subject of: Coastal and Marine
keywords: seamount
keywords: seafloor
keywords: marine
license: https://pacific-data.sprep.org/resource/public-data-license-agreement-0
spatial: POLYGON ((-231.50390625 48.294889621666, -102.83203125 48.060460270983, -72.94921875 -30.660594905099, -225.52734375 -23.46727645824))
spatial coverage: Pacific Region
accountable person: GRID-Arendal
distribution: Seamount Statistics
  type: DataDownload
  file format: png
  encoding format: image/png
  content size: 57042
  description: statistical records as of 2014 on the distribution of seamount. Accordingly, there are more seamounts in the Pacific Ocean than in the Atlantic, and their distribution can be described as comprising several elongate chains of seamounts superimposed on a more or less random background distribution (Craig and Sandwell)
distribution: Blue Habitats : Seamount
  type: DataDownload
  description: direct internet link into Seamount information on the Blue Habitat portal