Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/4987
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishSanta Maria HillsIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishSanta Maria RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Hill(s) 
Latitude 36° 54' 41" N (36.91140011°)  
Longitude 26° 56' 48.3" W (-26.94676117°)  
Min. Lat 36° 48' 0" N (36.8°)  
Min. Long 27° 34' 59.9" W (-27.5833°)  
Max. Lat 37° 0' 0" N (37°)  
Max. Long 26° 19' 0.1" W (-26.3167°)  
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-14. Proposer: Jean-René Vanney, University of Paris IV, France; and Portuguese Hydrographic Office (Instituto Hidrografico). Year of proposal: 2000.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby Santa Maria Island (Eastern Azores Group), Portugal.    
Additional information (en): These are minor elevations, with one "seamount" (1000-1100 m) on small rise of intermediate depth (about 1600 m). Named by Laughton et al. 1975. Shown as Santa Maria Ridge in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 36.966667; Longitude: -27    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155331    
Relations 
Part of  North Atlantic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (Azores) (EEZ)  [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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