St Helena Seamounts

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The St Helena Seamounts, forming the St Helena Seamount chain, are an underwater chain of seamounts in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The chain has been formed by the movement of the African Plate over the St Helena hotspot.[1]

The seamounts lie to the northwest of the island of St Helena itself.

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