Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6540
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishRitchie BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 8° 55' 0" S (-8.916667°)  
Longitude 60° 20' 0" E (60.333333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Previous coordinates 2002: minLat: -39.6645, minLong: 178.3683, maxLat: -39.5753, maxLong: 178.4292    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA; and Desmond P.D. Scott, UK. Year of proposal: 2001.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie (1914-2012), an eminent and highly respected Hydrographer. He was U.K. Hydrographer of the Navy 1967-1971 and President of the IHO Directing Committee in 1972-1982. He also was a captain of HMS "Challenger"     
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -9; Longitude: 60.166667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9096008    
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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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