| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/33507 |
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Proposed standard  |
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Name source |
| English | Kokugan Fracture Zone | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Fracture Zone |
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| Latitude |
16° 31' 33.1" N (16.52586232°) |
| Longitude |
139° 59' 41.7" E (139.9949078°) |
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16° 12' 0" N (16.2°) |
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139° 56' 24" E (139.94°) |
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| Max. Lat |
16° 51' 6.1" N (16.8517°) |
| Max. Long |
140° 3' 0" E (140.05°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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| Notes |
(en): Coordinates calculated from feature |
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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 16.52585; Long: 139.995; minLat: 16.2; minLong: 139.94; maxLat: 16.8517; maxLong: 140.05 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-25. Proposer: Yasuhiko Ohara, Japan Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department (JHOD). Year of proposal: 2012. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessels "Takuyo" and "Shoyo". Year of discovery: 1993. History: Kokugan is the Japanese for "Brant goose". A bird is relevant to the name of the nearby Oki-no-Tori Shima Island ("tori" means "bird" in Japanese). |
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Additional information (en): Reference: Ohara et al., 2011, Tectonics of unusual crustal accretion in the Parece Vela Basin, in Y. Ogawa et al. (eds), Accretionary prisms and convergent margin tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin, Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 8, |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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