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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7578
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishTupa GuyotIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Guyot 
Latitude 8° 46' 30" S (-8.775°)  
Longitude 139° 44' 30" W (-139.741667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Corrected longitude (GEBCO October 2002 error: 139°44'30"E) Updated with GEBCO May 2014.     
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -8.775; Long: -139.7416667    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. Proposer: Jean-Luc Sauvage, French Hydrographic Office (SHOM). Year of proposal: 1992.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: French research vessel "L'Estafette". Year of discovery: 1991. History: Tupa is a legend character known as the Marquesan "Hercule". The legend tells that he and her sister are responsible for the cocks' folly which, in this area, are reported    
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Part of  South Atlantic 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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