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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/8179
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishVysokaya BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishVysokaja BankUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 59° 43' 6" S (-59.718333°)  
Longitude 27° 58' 18" W (-27.971667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -59.71833333; Long: -27.97166667    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-7. Proposer: Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO). Year of proposal: 1985.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Russian research vessel "Aleksandr Tortsev". Year of discovery: 1978. History: Named from the shape of this feature; "Vysok" means "head" or "temple" in Russian.    
Additional information (en): Minimum depth (m): 115.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -59.716667; Longitude: -27.966667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -156009    
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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