Resolution Guyot, formerly known as Huevo, is a guyot (tablemount) in the underwater Mid-Pacific Mountains. It is a circular flat mountain, rising 500 metres (1,600 ft) above the seafloor to a depth of about 1,320 metres (4,330 ft), with a summit platform 35 kilometres (22 mi) wide. The Mid-Pacific Mountains lie west of Hawaii and northeast of the Marshall Islands, but at the time of its formation the guyot was located in the Southern Hemisphere, by a hotspot in today's French Polynesia. Plate tectonics shifted it to its present-day location, and the Easter, Marquesas, Pitcairn and Society hotspots may have been involved in the formation of Resolution Guyot. Volcanic activity has been dated to have occurred 107 to 129 million years ago and formed a volcanic island that was subsequently flattened by erosion. The platform emerged above sea level at one point before eventually drowning for reasons still unknown, with thermal subsidence lowering it further to its present depth.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Guyot

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1659:

Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town, produced the first bottle of South African wine (vineyard pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_wine

1913:

New York City's Grand Central Terminal, the world's largest train station by number of platforms, opened immediately after midnight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal

1942:

The first act of the Norwegian resistance movement took place with the bombing of Oslo East Station by the Osvald Group to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osvald_Group

2009:

Omid, Iran's first domestically made satellite, was successfully launched from Semnan Space Center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

retrofit: 1. (transitive) 2. To supply (a device, structure, etc.) with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; to modernize. 3. To add or substitute (new components or parts) that were not previously available for or installed in a device, structure, etc. 4. (computing) Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply to (a previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the same time or after supplying it to the current version; to retroactively supply (a fix or a new feature) to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version”) 5. (figuratively) To give new characteristics or make alterations (to someone or something) to suit them to changed circumstances. 6. (intransitive) To supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed. 7. An act of supplying a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; a retrofitting. 8. A change made to a device, structure, etc., by introducing components or parts that were not previously available or installed. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retrofit

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I like to see a man of advancing years throwing caution to the wind. It's inspiring in a way.   --Groundhog Day https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29