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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5013 |
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| English | Faial Passage | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Passage |
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| Latitude |
38° 33' 0" N (38.55°) |
| Longitude |
28° 34' 0" W (-28.566667°) |
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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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(en): Corrected longitude (GEBCO October 2002 error: 28°24'0"W)
Updated with GEBCO May 2014. |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Jean-René Vanney, University of Paris IV, France; and Portuguese Hydrographic Office (Instituto Hidrografico). Year of proposal: 2000. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby Faial Island, Azores. |
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Additional information (en): This is a very local short cleft between islands; name used on the Portuguese hydrographic charts. |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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