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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6994 |
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| English | Mercator Knoll | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Knoll(s) |
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68° 45' 0" S (-68.75°) |
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0° 8' 0" W (-0.133333°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -68.75; Long: -0.133333333 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. Proposer: Heinrich Hinze, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 1997. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after the Flamish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594)), who developed the "Mercator projection" for nautical charting, still in use in oceanic work, and compiled a world chart "ad usum navigantium". |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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