| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7253 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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Name source |
| English | Andrew Bain Fracture Zone | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Bain Fracture Zone | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Fracture Zone |
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| Latitude |
49° 36' 57.9" S (-49.61608543°) |
| Longitude |
30° 2' 47.9" E (30.04664183°) |
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| Min. Lat |
56° 0' 0" S (-56°) |
| Min. Long |
24° 30' 0" E (24.5°) |
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| Max. Lat |
43° 0' 0" S (-43°) |
| Max. Long |
34° 15' 0" E (34.25°) |
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| Source |
IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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| Notes |
(en): Coordinates updated (200, bb: -51, 28.866667 / -41, 35.35) |
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(en): Updated coordinates (wrong input [Min. Long: 29.375°]) |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -49.5; Long: 29.375; minLat: -56; minLong: 24.5; maxLat: -43; maxLong: 34.25 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-6. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA; and Christopher J. H. Hartnady, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. Year of proposal: 1985. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: South African re-supply vessels. Year of discovery: 1978. History: Named after Andrew Geddes Bain ("Father of South African Geology": A. du Toit), a mid-1800's field geologist-mapmaker-stratigrapher who noted similarities between fossil plants |
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Additional information (en): Shown as Bain Fracture Zone in the ACUF Gazetteer. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -46; Longitude: 32.333333 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152468 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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