Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7197
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishBaeyer CanyonIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Canyon(s) 
Latitude 69° 14' 11.2" S (-69.236456°)  
Longitude 0° 20' 33.1" E (0.342529°)  
Min. Lat 69° 42' 0" S (-69.7°)  
Min. Long 0° 9' 30.2" E (0.1584°)  
Max. Lat 68° 52' 0.1" S (-68.8667°)  
Max. Long 0° 34' 59.9" E (0.5833°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Updated coordinates (GEBCO May 2014) - Previous values (GEBCO October 2002): [Max. Long: 0.5°]    
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.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after Johann Jacob Baeyer (1794-1885) who initiated the European longitude measuring project "Europäische Gradmessung". Baeyer put forward visionary ideas concerning international co-operation in technical science.    
Relations 
Part of  Southern Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Antarctic 200 NM zone beyond the coastline (200 NM zone beyond the coastline)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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