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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7528
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishNazca RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishNasca RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianNaska KhrebetUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianНаска ХребетUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 19° 19' 17.4" S (-19.3214908°)  
Longitude 79° 50' 12" W (-79.83667672°)  
Min. Lat 23° 20' 0" S (-23.3333°)  
Min. Long 83° 10' 0" W (-83.1667°)  
Max. Lat 15° 15' 0" S (-15.25°)  
Max. Long 76° 40' 0" W (-76.6667°)  
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): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA; and E. Schweigger. Year of proposal: 1958.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessels "Horizon" and "Spencer F. Baird". Year of discovery: 1958. History: Named from the nearby coastal town of Nazca, Peru. This was proposed in IGY General Report No. 2 (1958) by R. L. Fisher.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -22; Longitude: -82    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154623    
Relation 
Part of  South Pacific 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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