Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/4195
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishTheta PassageIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishTheta GapUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Passage 
Latitude 43° 30' 0" N (43.5°)  
Longitude 13° 0' 0" W (-13°)  
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-13. Proposer: Anthony S. Laughton, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS), UK. Year of proposal: 1960.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the trace of the bed of the abyssal valley that resembles the Greek letter theta.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Theta Gap in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 43.5; Longitude: -12.666667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155765    
Relation 
Part of  North Atlantic 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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