Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/63109
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishConstituição BasinIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishConstituicao BasinUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Basin 
Latitude 3° 3' 26.4" N (3.05734°)  
Longitude 30° 36' 21.4" W (-30.60595°)  
Min. Lat 2° 59' 14.2" N (2.9873°)  
Min. Long 30° 41' 36.5" W (-30.6935°)  
Max. Lat 3° 7' 58.1" N (3.1328°)  
Max. Long 30° 31' 8.4" W (-30.519°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Additional information (en): Minimum depth (m): 3500. Maximum depth (m): 3920. Total relief (m): 420. Dimension/size: 22 km x 15 km.    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): "Associated meeting: SCUFN-32. Proposer: Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN)    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Brazil. History: 2019.","Discoverer: French research vessel ""Pourquoi Pas ?"". Year of discovery: 2009. History: Named from the Brazilian Frigate ""Constituição"" (F42) that participated in the search and recovery mission for the wreckage of the Air France Flight 447 in 2009, near the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago. The Brazilian Navy mobilized more than 1100 people as part of the search and recovery effort. The recovered bodies, from a wide area of the ocean, were transported by the Frigate ""Constituição"" to the island of Fernando de Noronha and thereafter by air to the continent."    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 14961968    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 3.057336; Longitude: -30.605947    
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Part of  North Atlantic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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