Marine Regions · South Sandwich Fracture Zone (Fracture Zone)

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MRGID

http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7591

Status

Proposed standard

Names

Language	Name	Name source
English	South Sandwich Fracture Zone	IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names
English	South Orkney Fracture Zone	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)

PlaceType

Fracture Zone

Latitude

60° 39' 52.1" S (-60.6644699°)

Longitude

20° 44' 14.7" W (-20.73741058°)

Min. Lat

60° 45' 0" S (-60.75°)

Min. Long

24° 0' 0" W (-24°)

Max. Lat

60° 30' 0" S (-60.5°)

Max. Long

17° 30' 0" W (-17.5°)

Source

IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/

Notes

GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the adjacent South Sandwich Islands, UK.

Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -63; Longitude: -20

ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155585

Relations

Part of	Southern Ocean (IHO Sea Area)	[view hierarchy]
Part of	Overlapping claim South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: United Kingdom / Argentina (Overlapping claim)	[view hierarchy]

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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula