Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/58708
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishRyugunotsukai SpurIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishRyūgū no Tsukai SpurUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Spur 
Latitude 19° 59' 26.4" N (19.99068°)  
Longitude 159° 24' 5.4" E (159.4015°)  
Min. Lat 19° 54' 43.8" N (19.9122°)  
Min. Long 158° 48' 7.3" E (158.802°)  
Max. Lat 20° 4' 9.1" N (20.0692°)  
Max. Long 160° 0' 3.5" E (160.001°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Additional information (en): This feature has an elongated shape. The single position is that of the shallowest point. Minimum depth (m): 3347. Maximum depth (m): 5783. Total relief (m): 2436. Dimension/size: 130 km × 15 km.    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-31. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). History: 2018.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessel "Shoyo". Year of discovery: 2001. History: Named from its shape as this feature looks like an oarfish (a deepsea fish), "Ryugunotsukai" in Japanese.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14988710    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 19.984058; Longitude: 159.422208    
Relation 
Part of  North Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2019-05-15 02:08:08 by Lonneville Britt
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