Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7839
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishHovgaard RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishHovgaard Fracture ZoneUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 78° 20' 17" N (78.338058°)  
Longitude 2° 14' 18.4" E (2.238434°)  
Min. Lat 78° 5' 0" N (78.0833°)  
Min. Long 0° 30' 0" W (-0.5°)  
Max. Lat 78° 45' 0" N (78.75°)  
Max. Long 5° 0' 0" E (5°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-16. Proposer: Martin Klenke, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 2003.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. oceanographic research vessel "Hayes". Year of discovery: 1972. History: Named after Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1853-1910), Danish meteorologist and member of the Danish expedition to the Kara Sea, first International Polar Year, 1882-1883.    
Additional information (en): This feature consists in two segments more or less parallel to the trend of the fracture zone.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 78; Longitude: 1.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153810    
Relations 
Part of  Greenland Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [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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