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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/25048
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishShmakov EscarpmentIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Escarpment 
Latitude 88° 42' 21.9" N (88.70609°)  
Longitude 40° 17' 41.5" W (-40.29487°)  
Min. Lat 87° 20' 0" N (87.3333°)  
Min. Long 179° 59' 56.4" W (-179.999°)  
Max. Lat 88° 55' 0" N (88.9167°)  
Max. Long 179° 59' 56.4" E (179.999°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Updated coordinates (GEBCO May 2014) - Previous values (GEBCO August 2011): [Min. Lat: 87.33°] ; [Min. Long: -120°] ; [Max. Lat: 88.92°] ; [Max. Long: 148°]    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 88.42; Long: 177.84; minLat: 87.333333; minLong: -180; maxLat: 88.916667; maxLong: 150    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-17. Proposer: Garrik E. Grikurov, All-Russia Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologia). Year of proposal: 2003.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: USSR Northern Fleet Hydrographic Expedition. Year of discovery: 1962. History: Named after Konstantin Andreyevich Shmakov (1929-1993), Russian astronomer with the North Hydrographic Expedition. From 1964, he carried out astronomic referencing     
Additional information (en): This is a major feature, steep and sinuous.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 88.59392 ; Long: -179.9 ; minLat: 87.33333 ; minLong: -179 ; maxLat: 88.91667 ; maxLong: 179 (update 2020-04-22)    
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Part of  Arctic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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