Mount Gabi
Underwater mountain off the coast of Western Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Gabi is an underwater mountain, similar to a guyot, that was discovered in 2006, fifty kilometres (31 mi) off the coast of Augusta near the south-western tip of Western Australia.[1] It lies a similar distance west of Windy Harbour
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Mount Gabi | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 300 m (980 ft) |
Coordinates | 35°15′0″S 115°07′0″E |
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Location | Sea floor, 50 km (31 mi) from Augusta, Western Australia |
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It lies at a depth of one thousand metres (3,300 ft), rising three hundred metres (980 ft) from the sea floor and is five kilometres (3.1 mi) wide.
Mount Gabi was discovered by Cameron Buchanan, a multibeam sonar specialist from Geoscience Australia, the Australian national agency for geoscience research, via swath mapper during investigations of continental shelf processes between the Great Australian Bight and Cape Leeuwin.