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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5788 |
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| English | De Covilhão Trough | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Trough |
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22° 45' 0" N (22.75°) |
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63° 20' 0" E (63.333333°) |
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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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Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 22.75; Long: 63.33333333 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-10. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1981. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Various vessels. Year of discovery: 1930. History: Named after Pedro de Covilhão (1460-1526), a Portuguese traveller who in 1490 went by dhow from Aden to Calicut and very likely passed over this feature. |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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