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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/33599
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishGuará BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 3° 57' 34.9" S (-3.9597°)  
Longitude 36° 16' 14.9" W (-36.2708°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Corrected latitude/longitude (input error: switched lat/lon) Updated with GEBCO May 2014. Source was correct (GEBCO May 2014).    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-26. Proposer: Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN), Brazil. Year of proposal: 2013.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Brazilian survey vessel "Sea Surveyor". Year of discovery: 2009. History: Name taken from Brazilian Chart 21030 (INT 2004). The word Guará is derived from the tupi-guarani native language and means red. It is also associated to the bird and th    
Additional information (en): The feature is located close to Sirius Bank. Minimum depth (m): 238. Maximum depth (m): 3055. Total relief (m): 2817. Dimension: 24 km x 22 km.    
Relation 
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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