Peirce Seamount

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Peirce Seamount
Peirce Seamount (British Columbia)
Peirce Seamount
Peirce Seamount
Location of Peirce Seamount
Summit depth 1,800 m (5,906 ft)
Location North Pacific Ocean
Coordinates 53.44° N 136.32° W
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]

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