Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5000
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishFormigas HoleIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Hole 
Latitude 36° 50' 50.6" N (36.84739775°)  
Longitude 23° 49' 44.3" W (-23.82896118°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Corrected latitude/longitude (GEBCO October 2002 error: 37°0'0"N/24°18'0"W) Updated with GEBCO May 2014.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 36.847398; Long: -23.82896    
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 Formigas Islets, Azores, Portugal.    
Additional information (en): This is a local depression, indistinctly bounded to east and south. It arguably extends to northeast. [See Searle R. (1980). Tectonic pattern of the Azores Spreading Centre and Triple Junction. EPSL, 51: 415-434 (fig .1, p. 416)]Total relief (m): 400.    
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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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