| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/33510 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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Name source |
| English | Moeraki Seachannel | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Moeraki Channel | New Zealand Gazetteer |
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Seachannel |
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| Latitude |
43° 38' 56.9" S (-43.64914°) |
| Longitude |
167° 49' 14.8" E (167.82077°) |
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| Min. Lat |
43° 42' 23" S (-43.7064°) |
| Min. Long |
167° 7' 36.1" E (167.1267°) |
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| Max. Lat |
43° 29' 15" S (-43.4875°) |
| Max. Long |
168° 32' 29.8" E (168.5416°) |
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| Source |
IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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| Notes |
(en): Coordinates calculated from feature |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -43.5875; Long: 167.99695; minLat: -43.7064; minLong: 167.1267; maxLat: -43.4686; maxLong: 168.8672 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-25. Proposer: New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB). Year of proposal: 2012. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the land names Moeraki River, Lake Moeraki, Moeraki Bluffs and Moeraki Hill, on the adjacent New Zealand mainland. "Moeraki" translates from Maori to mean "sleepy sky". |
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Additional information (en): This feature is the outer reaches of the Moeraki canyon complex originating off the Moeraki River, West Coast, forming a 5km wide 500-800m incised flat-bottomed canyon running across the continental shelf and slope until merging with the Haast Channel on |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -43.62755 ; Long: 167.99254 ; minLat: -43.7064 ; minLong: 167.1267 ; maxLat: -43.4686 ; maxLong: 168.8672 (update 2020-04-22) |
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Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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