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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/24869 |
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| English | Eötvös Escarpment | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Escarpment |
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56° 23' 0" S (-56.383333°) |
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42° 49' 0" W (-42.816667°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -56.38; Long: -42.82 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-19. Proposer: Heinrich Hinze, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 2006. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: German research vessel "Polarstern". Year of discovery: 2005. History: Named after Dr. Lóránd Eötvös (1848-1919), a Hungarian professional scientist in experimental physics and geophysics. Dr. Eötvös invented the Eötvös balance instrument and |
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Additional information (en): This feature is arc-shaped. Its slope varies from 36% at the western end, 69% at the center, and 18% at the eastern end. It was surveyed with multibeam in 2005. Minimum depth (m): 2000. Maximum depth (m): 4500. Total relief (m): 2500. Dimension: 103 km x |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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