Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6445
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishSt. Pierre BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishSaint Pierre BankUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 39° 0' 0" S (-39°)  
Longitude 77° 45' 0" E (77.75°)  
Precision 5000 meter 
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1980.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Horizon". Year of discovery: 1963. History: Named in association with the nearby mid-Indian Ocean islet of Saint-Paul (France), as both names refer to the closely related apostles Peter ("Pierre" in French) and Paul.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -38.95; Longitude: 77.733333    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155267    
Relation 
Part of  Indian Ocean (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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