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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/63439 |
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| English | Vema Terrace | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Terrace |
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| Latitude |
30° 2' 29" S (-30.04139°) |
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38° 37' 8.3" W (-38.61896°) |
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32° 28' 23.3" S (-32.4732°) |
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39° 33' 27.8" W (-39.5577°) |
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| Max. Lat |
28° 13' 46" S (-28.2294°) |
| Max. Long |
37° 13' 22.8" W (-37.223°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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| Notes |
Additional information (en): This feature is elongated in the N-S direction. The name Vema Terrace was published in a scientific paper by Gambôa et al (1983). Minimum depth (m): 2787. Maximum depth (m): 4872. Total relief (m): 2085. Dimension/size: 140 km x 570 km. |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-34. Proposer: Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN), Brazil. History: 2020. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Vema". Year of discovery: 1966. History: Named from the U.S. research vessel "Vema", with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (L-DEO), Columbia University, USA, from 1951 to 1980s. She conducted surveys in this area. |
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Last edited on 2021-09-02 22:35:14 by Lonneville Britt
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