| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/58207 |
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Name source |
| English | Cook Fracture Zone | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Fracture Zone |
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| Latitude |
26° 37' 53.3" S (-26.631475°) |
| Longitude |
171° 57' 8.8" E (171.95244°) |
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27° 23' 12.1" S (-27.3867°) |
| Min. Long |
169° 54' 25.8" E (169.9072°) |
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| Max. Lat |
25° 52' 34.5" S (-25.8763°) |
| Max. Long |
173° 59' 51.8" E (173.9977°) |
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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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| Notes |
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -27; Long: 172.183333 |
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Additional information (en): This is a scarp-like NW trending rectilinear feature, approximately 820 km N of the North Island of New Zealand. It separates and offsets Three Kings Ridge with Loyalty Ridge. Ref. 1) J Launay, J Dupont & A Lapouille (1982) The Three Kings Ridge and the Norfolk Basin (Southwest Pacific): an attempt at structural interpretation, South Pacific Marine Geological Notes, 2:8. 2) RH Herzer et al. (2011) Oligocene-Miocene spreading history of the northern South Fiji Basin and implications for the evolution of the New Zealand plate boundary, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,12:2, 1-20. Minimum depth (m): 2350. Maximum depth (m): 4350. Total relief (m): 2000. Dimension/size: 300 km long. |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-31. Proposer: New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB). History: 2018. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after Captain James Cook (1728 - 1779), a British explorer, navigator and cartographer. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he inter alia achieved the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14988604 |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -26.847911; Longitude: 171.839264 |
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Last edited on 2019-05-13 13:26:55 by Lonneville Britt
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