MarBEF Data System



European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/25020
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishPolarstern BasinIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Basin 
Latitude 56° 50' 58.4" S (-56.849563°)  
Longitude 43° 2' 9.4" W (-43.035937°)  
Min. Lat 57° 13' 54" S (-57.2317°)  
Min. Long 43° 51' 22.8" W (-43.8563°)  
Max. Lat 56° 28' 55.2" S (-56.482°)  
Max. Long 42° 16' 45.6" W (-42.2793°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Refined coordinates from GEBCO August 2011 with data from GEBCO May 2014 (more decimals)    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-23. Proposer: Hans Werner Schenke, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 2010.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: German research vessel "Polarstern". Year of discovery: 2005. History: Named from the German ice-breaking research vessel "Polarstern" which, during the Antarctic Expedition ANT XXII/4, conducted a complete areal survey of this area in order t    
Additional information (en): Wide and long depression in E-W direction, with steepness of 38°. Minimum depth (m): 1905. Maximum depth (m): 4605. Total relief (m): 2700. Dimension: 100 km x 70 km.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 12358080    
Relations 
Part of  Overlapping claim South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: United Kingdom / Argentina (Overlapping claim)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  South Atlantic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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