Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6839
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishBelgica GuyotIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Guyot 
Latitude 65° 30' 0" S (-65.5°)  
Longitude 90° 30' 0" W (-90.5°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Belgica information (en): An undersea tablemount named for the Belgian research ship Belgica, used in the first Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1896-1899). Name proposed by Dr. Rick Hagen, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Name approved 6/97 (ACUF 270). http://geonames.usgs.gov/    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. Proposer: Rick Hagen, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 1997.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: German research vessel "Polarstern". Year of discovery: 1995. History: Named from the research vessel "Belgica" of the Belgian Antarctic exploration cruise, 1896-1899.    
Additional information (en): Minimum depth (m): 380.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 263203    
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