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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/58694
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishNP-28 Sea ChannelIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seachannel 
Latitude 87° 29' 1.9" N (87.48385°)  
Longitude 37° 29' 18.1" W (-37.48835°)  
Min. Lat 85° 23' 31.2" N (85.392°)  
Min. Long 49° 57' 29.5" W (-49.9582°)  
Max. Lat 89° 34' 32.5" N (89.5757°)  
Max. Long 25° 1' 6.6" W (-25.0185°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Additional information (en): Minimum depth (m): 200. Dimension/size: Width up to 20 km..    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-18. Proposer: Yngve Kristoffersen, University of Bergen, Norway. History: 2004.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Russian ice drift station "North Pole 28". Year of discovery: 1988. History: Russian ice drift station North Pole 28 (NP-28) drifted across the feature in the summer of 1988 and recorded the seismic data that most clearly expresses the existence of the Seachannel. The name "NP-28" is a tribute to the contribution of Russian ice stations to the exploration of the Arctic Ocean.    
Relation 
Part of  Arctic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2019-05-15 02:08:08 by Lonneville Britt
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