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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7584
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishChamois ReefIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
FrenchBanc du ChamoisUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishChamois BankUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Reef 
Latitude 21° 2' 30" S (-21.041667°)  
Longitude 167° 44' 36" E (167.743333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -21.04166667; Long: 167.7433333    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. Proposer: Christophe Le Visage, French Hydrographic Office (SHOM). Year of proposal: 1995.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: French vessel BSR "Chamois". Year of discovery: 1994. History: Named from the French ship BSR "Chamois" that comprehensively charted this feature at the occasion of a reconnaissance survey carried out in 1994 and 1995, before she was laid up.    
Additional information (en): Differential GPS navigation. Shown as Chamois Bank in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -21.033333; Longitude: 167.733333    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 154762    
Relation 
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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