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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7841
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishSpitsbergen TroughIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Trough 
Latitude 79° 40' 5.5" N (79.66820723°)  
Longitude 3° 29' 2.6" E (3.48404803°)  
Min. Lat 79° 30' 0" N (79.5°)  
Min. Long 2° 30' 0" E (2.5°)  
Max. Lat 79° 50' 0" N (79.8333°)  
Max. Long 4° 30' 0" E (4.5°)  
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. icebreakers and submarines. Year of discovery: 1960. History: Named from the nearby Spitsbergen archipelago, Norway.    
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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