Magnetic modeling studies have been conducted on the newly named Watkins seamount in the central Pacific. The results, while preliminary, give a paleomagnetic pole position of 69.8 ¿N and 13.3 ¿E. The pole position lies near pole positions of other Cretaceous seamounts from the central Pacific, indicating that the seamount may be Cretaceous in age. The paleoinclination suggests that the seamount formed south of the magnetic equator, a hypothesis consistent with overall Pacific plate motion since the Late Cretaceous.