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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/8068
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishStefansson BasinIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Basin 
Latitude 81° 15' 0" N (81.25°)  
Longitude 120° 0' 0" W (-120°)  
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): Proposer: Yuriy G. Kiselev, All-Russia Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologia). Year of proposal: 1975.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Russian Drift Ice Expedition "Sever". Year of discovery: 1966. History: Named after the Canadian polar explorer, ethnographer and writer V. Steffansson (1879-1962), who led expeditions in Iceland, Alaska and Canadian Arctic.    
Relation 
Part of  Arctic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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