Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5828
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishTunge CanyonIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishTungue CanyonUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Canyon(s) 
Latitude 10° 45' 0" S (-10.75°)  
Longitude 40° 50' 0" E (40.833333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -10.75; Long: 40.83333333    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Jean-René Vanney, University of Paris IV, France. Year of proposal: 2000.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby Tunge Island, Mozambique.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Tungue Canyon in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -10.733333; Longitude: 40.666667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155875    
Relation 
Part of  Mozambique Channel (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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