Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/24807
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishAmirante TrenchIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishAmerantes TrenchUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianAmirantskiy ZhelobUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianАмирантский ЖелобUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Trench 
Latitude 7° 47' 17.9" S (-7.788317°)  
Longitude 52° 46' 1" E (52.766936°)  
Min. Lat 9° 5' 43.8" S (-9.0955°)  
Min. Long 52° 21' 17.1" E (52.3547°)  
Max. Lat 6° 0' 0" S (-6°)  
Max. Long 53° 49' 59.9" E (53.8333°)  
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 2012): [Min. Long: 52.5°] ; [Max. Lat: -9.083333°]    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-15. Proposer: I. M. Belousov, Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IO RAS). Year of proposal: 1961.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Russian research vessel "Vityaz"; and British vessel HMS "Owen". Year of discovery: 1959. History: Named from the nearby Amirante Islands, Seychelles.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -8; Longitude: 52.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152321    
Relations 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Seychellois 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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