Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/25012
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishPalmer BasinIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishPalmer DeepUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Basin 
Latitude 64° 36' 21.1" S (-64.60586°)  
Longitude 64° 32' 50.1" W (-64.54725°)  
Min. Lat 64° 55' 0" S (-64.9167°)  
Min. Long 64° 49' 0" W (-64.8167°)  
Max. Lat 64° 2' 0" S (-64.0333°)  
Max. Long 64° 11' 0" W (-64.1833°)  
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-20. Proposer: Margaret Knuth, National Science Foundation, USA. Year of proposal: 2006.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. icebreaker "Glacier". Year of discovery: 1983. History: Named after the American seaman Nathaniel B. Palmer (1799-1877), who was one of the discoverers of Palmer Peninsula, Antarctica. The feature is also close to Palmer Station.    
Additional information (en): This feature is located south-west of Anvers Island. It is an inner shelf depression at an intersection of three ice drainage systems. Minimum depth (m): 100. Maximum depth (m): 1400. Total relief (m): 1300. Dimension: Approximately 30 km EW at widest and    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -64.95; Longitude: -64.4    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9272957    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -64.03417 ; Long: -64.63291 ; minLat: -64.91667 ; minLong: 64.18333 ; maxLat: -64.03333 ; maxLong: 64.81667 (update 2020-04-22)    
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 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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