| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7567 |
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| Names |
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| English | Horizon Deep | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Horizon Depth | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Deep |
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| Latitude |
23° 15' 30" S (-23.258333°) |
| Longitude |
174° 43' 36" W (-174.726667°) |
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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 |
General information (en): Coordinates updated: GEBCO (2002): Lat: -23.255°; Lon: -174.73333333° |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -23.255; Long: -174.7333333 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher and Roger R.D. Revelle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1953. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Horizon". Year of discovery: 1952. History: Named from the U.S. research vessel "Horizon" of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). The British vessel HMS "Egeria" (1880's) found deep water in vicinity, but greate |
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Additional information (en): Discovered during the Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953). This is the deepest part of Tonga Trench, also deepest point (10,800 m ± 10 m) in the Southern Hemisphere and second deepest trench. Only Challenger Deep (10,920 m ± 10 m) in Marianas Trench, southwe |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -23.266667; Longitude: -174.733333 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153798 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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