Peirce Seamount
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Peirce Seamount | |
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Summit depth | 1,800 m (5,906 ft) |
Location | North Pacific Ocean |
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Country | Canada |
Type | Submarine volcano |
Peirce Seamount, also called Pierce Seamount, is a seamount located in the Pacific Ocean west of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. It lies between Denson Seamount and Hodgkins Seamount and is member of the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, a chain of seamounts in southeastern Gulf of Alaska stretching from the Aleutian Trench in the north to Bowie Seamount in the south.[1]