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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2438
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
DutchThornton BankASFA thesaurus   
EnglishThornton RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Shoal 
Latitude 51° 34' 0" N (51.566667°)  
Longitude 3° 0' 0" E (3°)  
Precision 11443 meter 
Min. Lat 51° 28' 55.5" N (51.4821°)  
Min. Long 2° 45' 35.7" E (2.7599°)  
Max. Lat 51° 35' 24.6" N (51.5902°)  
Max. Long 3° 2' 29" E (3.0414°)  
Source US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF), available online at http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/acuf.html
Notes Additional information (en): Feature also available in Plaatsnamen Nederland / Localities of The Netherlands with coordinates: Latitude: 51.53612; Longitude: 2.900647    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155774    
Relation 
Part of  Zeeland Banks (Sandbank System)  [view hierarchy]   
Map
Dataset covering
the whole area
Characterisation of the habitat of the Flemish banks, the maritime country banks and of the hinder banks on the basis of the hyper benthos communities
Edit history Last edited on 2014-12-01 11:51:57 by Oset Garcia Paula
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