Bowie Seamount

Bowie Seamount
3-D depiction of Bowie Seamount
Map of Bowie Seamount
Summit depth	24 m (79 ft)[1][2]
Height	~3,000 m (9,843 ft)
Location
Location	North Pacific Ocean, 180 km (112 mi) west of the Haida Gwaii
Coordinates	53°18′24.93″N 135°39′33.23″W / 53.3069250°N 135.6592306°W / 53.3069250; -135.6592306
Country	Canada
Geology
Type	Submarine volcano
Volcanic arc/chain	Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain
Age of rock	Pleistocene
Last eruption	18,000 years ago[2]

Bowie Seamount, or SG̱aan Ḵinghlas ("Supernatural One Looking Outward") in the Haida language,^[3][4] is a large submarine volcano in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, located 180 km (110 mi) west of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada. The seamount is also known as Bowie Bank. The English name for the feature is after William Bowie of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.^[5]

The volcano has a flat-topped summit rising about 3,000 m (10,000 ft) above the seabed, to 24 m (79 ft) below sea level.^[1] The seamount lies at the southern end of a long underwater volcanic mountain range called the Pratt-Welker or Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, stretching from the Aleutian Trench in the north almost to Haida Gwaii in the south.^[1]

Bowie Seamount lies on the Pacific Plate, a large segment of the Earth's surface which moves in a northwestern direction under the Pacific Ocean. It is adjacent to two other submarine volcanoes; Hodgkins Seamount on its northern flank and Graham Seamount on its eastern flank.