Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/24908
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishHoutz BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 77° 0' 2" S (-77.00055916°)  
Longitude 166° 33' 24.1" W (-166.5566942°)  
Min. Lat 78° 30' 0" S (-78.5°)  
Min. Long 167° 0' 0" W (-167°)  
Max. Lat 75° 30' 0" S (-75.5°)  
Max. Long 166° 0' 0" W (-166°)  
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-23. Proposer: Fred J. Davey, Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand. Year of proposal: 2006.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after Dr. R. Houtz, a marine geophysicist who carried out some of the extensive marine geophysical research in the Ross Sea and the Southern Oceans in the 1960s through 1980s while on the research staff of Lamont Doherty Geological Observat    
Additional information (en): This is a linear feature. Minimum depth (m): 395. Maximum depth (m): 545. Total relief (m): 150. Dimension: About 350 km x 70 km.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 12358106    
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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