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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7840
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishMolloy RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 79° 30' 8.8" N (79.50244433°)  
Longitude 2° 46' 45.9" E (2.77942625°)  
Min. Lat 79° 15' 0" N (79.25°)  
Min. Long 1° 30' 0" E (1.5°)  
Max. Lat 79° 45' 0" N (79.75°)  
Max. Long 4° 0' 0" E (4°)  
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): Associated meeting: SCUFN-16. Proposer: Martin Klenke, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 2003.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. oceanographic research vessel "Hayes". Year of discovery: 1972. History: Named after Arthur E. Molloy, U.S. Navy research scientist who worked in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic Oceans, 1950-1970s.    
Additional information (en): Irregular group of small elevations between "Spitsbergen Fracture Zone" and "Molloy Fracture Zone".    
Relations 
Part of  Greenland Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [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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