Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6512
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishMelville BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 38° 29' 0" S (-38.483333°)  
Longitude 46° 46' 0" E (46.766667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -38.48333333; Long: 46.76666667    
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 "Melville". Year of discovery: 1977. History: Named from U.S. research vessel "Melville" of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), which discovered this feature in May 1978, and mapped and dredged it at that time (Indo    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154406    
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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