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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/48878
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishShinjuboshi EscarpmentIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Escarpment 
Latitude 15° 54' 22.2" N (15.906159°)  
Longitude 134° 48' 12.3" E (134.803423°)  
Min. Lat 15° 32' 7.2" N (15.5353°)  
Min. Long 134° 38' 15" E (134.6375°)  
Max. Lat 16° 17' 27.6" N (16.291°)  
Max. Long 134° 57' 18" E (134.955°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-28. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). Year of proposal: 2015.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessel "Takuyo". Year of discovery: 2004. History: Named from the nearby Shinjuboshi Seamount. "Shinjuboshi" is the Japanese term for the Spica, the brightest star in the Virgo, in one of the Japanese dialects.    
Relation 
Part of  Philippine Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 14:57:37 by Oset Garcia Paula
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