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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/33496
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishCruzeiro do Sul RiftIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Rift 
Latitude 31° 59' 28.7" S (-31.9913°)  
Longitude 33° 15' 56.9" W (-33.2658°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Coordinates calculated from feature    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-24. Proposer: Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN), Brazil. Year of proposal: 2011.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Cruzeiro do Sul is the name of a five star constellation that indicates the South Pole (in English: South Cross). It is used as a national symbol by several southern nations and also appear in the Brazilian flag. The feature proposed is located i    
Additional information (en): Reference: Mohriak W. U., Nóbrega M., Odegard M. E., Gomes B. S. and Dickson W. G. 2010. Geological and geophysical interpretation of the Rio Grande Rise, south-eastern Brazilian margin: extensional tectonics and rifting of continental and oceanic crusts.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -32.30084 ; Long: -33.07641 ; minLat: -34.63 ; minLong: -37.06 ; maxLat: -29.759 ; maxLong: -28.87 (update 2020-04-22)    
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Edit history Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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