MarBEF Data System



European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7426
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishNorthwind RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishNorthwind CordilleraUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishNorthwind SeahighUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 76° 43' 5.1" N (76.71807°)  
Longitude 157° 6' 17.4" W (-157.10483°)  
Min. Lat 73° 51' 7.7" N (73.8522°)  
Min. Long 161° 39' 34.7" W (-161.6596°)  
Max. Lat 78° 45' 12.3" N (78.7534°)  
Max. Long 152° 28' 54.8" W (-152.4819°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Links http://geogratis.gc.ca/services/geoname/en/features/0cc5d14e849c20c389ce8d37906a663c    
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher and George Shumway, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA; and A. J. Carsola, Office of Naval Research, USA. Year of proposal: 1958.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. icebreaker "Northwind". Year of discovery: 1957. History: Named from the USCGC "Northwind" that discovered this feature.    
Additional information (en): Formerly, Northwind Seahigh.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 75; Longitude: -158    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154752    
CGND unique id (featureid) (en): 0cc5d14e849c20c389ce8d37906a663c    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 76.71807 ; Long: -157.10482 ; minLat: 73.85215 ; minLong: -161.65963 ; maxLat: 78.75342 ; maxLong: -152.48189 (update 2020-04-22)    
Relation 
Part of  Arctic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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