Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7543
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishTaipaka RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishTaipaka Seamount ChainUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 17° 49' 30.7" S (-17.825206°)  
Longitude 117° 29' 0.6" W (-117.48350471°)  
Min. Lat 17° 56' 0" S (-17.9333°)  
Min. Long 117° 46' 0" W (-117.7667°)  
Max. Lat 17° 43' 0" S (-17.7167°)  
Max. Long 117° 12' 0" W (-117.2°)  
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-12. Proposer: Daniel Scheirer, Brown University, USA. Year of proposal: 1995.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Melville". Year of discovery: 1992. History: Taipaka is a Pascuense term for "calm seas".    
Additional information (en): 100% multibeam coverage (Seabeam 2000) and GPS navigation. Shown as Taipaka Seamount Chain in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -17.833333; Longitude: -117.483333    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 186276    
Relation 
Part of  South Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [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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