| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/4926 |
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| English | Brest Canyon | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Canyon(s) |
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| Latitude |
47° 19' 51.1" N (47.33084872°) |
| Longitude |
6° 53' 9.5" W (-6.88597666°) |
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47° 11' 42" N (47.195°) |
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6° 56' 30" W (-6.9417°) |
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| Max. Lat |
47° 28' 0" N (47.4667°) |
| Max. Long |
6° 49' 48" W (-6.83°) |
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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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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Raymond Le Suavé and Jean-François Bourillet, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER). Year of proposal: 2000. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby city and port of Brest, located on the western coast of Brittany, France. |
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Additional information (en): The canyon debouches below the continental slope in a channel on the sedimented continental rise, i.e. Brest seachannel. |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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