Marine Regions · Suhm Abyssal Plain (Abyssal Plain)

Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID

http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5154

Status

Proposed standard

Names

Language	Name	Name source
English	Suhm Abyssal Plain	IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names
French	Fosse de Suhm	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)
French	Plaine Sohm	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)
English	Sohm Abyssal Plain	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)
English	Sohm Deep	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)
English	Sohm Plain	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)
English	Suhm Deep	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)
English	Suhm Plain	US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)
French	Plaine abyssale Sohm	Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGND)

PlaceType

Abyssal Plain

Latitude

34° 0' 0" N (34°)

Longitude

55° 0' 0" W (-55°)

Source

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

Links

http://geogratis.gc.ca/services/geoname/en/features/8063bd9bba3611d892e2080020a0f4c9

Notes

Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 34; Long: -55

GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. Year of proposal: 2007.

GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Year of discovery: 2006. History: Named after Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm (1847-1875), a German naturalist who participated in the Challenger expedition (1872-1876).

Additional information (en): Although rightly shown as Suhm Deep on the first 3 editions of GEBCO, the name was misprinted "Sohm" on the 4th and 5th editions.

ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155533

CGND unique id (featureid) (en): 8063bd9bba3611d892e2080020a0f4c9

Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 36 ; Long: -55 (update 2020-04-22)

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