Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6191
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishPigafetta GuyotIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Guyot 
Latitude 15° 50' 47.4" N (15.84651°)  
Longitude 148° 47' 21.2" E (148.78921°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 15.83333333; Long: 149    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-10. Proposer: Jacqueline Mammerickx, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1985.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after Antonio Pigafetta (1491-1534), who participated in Magellan's circumnavigation and is, with Delcano, one of the 18 participants who survived. Pigafetta kept a journal of the expedition which was published as an eyewitness account of t    
Additional information (en): Adopted from the ACUF Gazetteer. This feature was countoured and named on Mammerickx's Pacific series charts.    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 11277    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 15.83333 ; Long: 149 (update 2020-04-22)    
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Part of  North Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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