MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7528 |
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Names |
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Name source |
English | Nazca Ridge | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
English | Nasca Ridge | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
Russian | Naska Khrebet | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
Russian | Наска Хребет | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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PlaceType |
Ridge |
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Latitude |
19° 19' 17.4" S (-19.3214908°) |
Longitude |
79° 50' 12" W (-79.83667672°) |
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Min. Lat |
23° 20' 0" S (-23.3333°) |
Min. Long |
83° 10' 0" W (-83.1667°) |
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Max. Lat |
15° 15' 0" S (-15.25°) |
Max. Long |
76° 40' 0" W (-76.6667°) |
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Source |
IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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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. |
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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. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -22; Longitude: -82 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154623 |
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Edit history |
Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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