Mount Temple Seamount, also known as Mount Temple Knoll, is an
undersea mountain in the
North Atlantic Ocean, located about southeast of
Cape Race in Canadian waters off
Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (french: provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec. The four provinces are New Brunswick, Newfoundlan ...
. It rises to a height of over and has an areal extent of , making it larger than
Quebec City and the
Manitoban city of
Winnipeg. Mount Temple Seamount and
Carpathia Seamount about to the east are among the closest seamounts to the
RMS ''Titanic'' wreck.
Mount Temple is one of the seven named
Fogo Seamounts. Its name is derived from
SS ''Mount Temple'', a British steamship that traveled 4 hours in an attempt to participate in the rescue efforts following the
''Titanic'' disaster in 1912.
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Fogo Seamounts
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