| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6128 |
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| English | Mercator Basin | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Basin |
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33° 0' 0" N (33°) |
| Longitude |
165° 0' 0" E (165°) |
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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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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-6. Proposer: Jacqueline Mammerickx, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1985. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after the Flamish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594)), who developed the "Mercator projection" for nautical charting, still in use in oceanic work, and compiled a world chart "ad usum navigantium". |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154430 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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