Marine Regions · Dom João de Castro Bank (Bank)

Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID

http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5005

Status

Proposed standard

Names

Language	Name	Name source
English	Dom João de Castro Bank	IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names
Portuguese	Banco Dom João de Castro	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)
English	Dom João de Castro Reef	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)

PlaceType

Bank

Latitude

38° 13' 0" N (38.216667°)

Longitude

26° 36' 0" W (-26.6°)

Source

IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/

Image

Surveying the Bank by SCUBA. Not public

Notes

Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 38.21666667; Long: -26.6

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): Discoverer: Portuguese survey vessel "Dom João de Castro". Year of discovery: 1941. History: Named from the Portuguese hydrographic survey vessel "Dom João de Castro" that surveyed this feature in 1941.

Additional information (en): See Oliveira A., 1943. Trabalhos da Missão Hidrográfica des Ilhas Adjacentes. Banco "D. João de Castro". An. Clube Militar Naval. Already mentioned in numerous nautical documents. Shown as Dom João de Castro Reef in the ACUF Gazetteer.

Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 38.216667; Longitude: -26.633333

ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153204

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