Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6561
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishSomali Abyssal PlainIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishSomali PlainUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Abyssal Plain 
Latitude 5° 0' 0" N (5°)  
Longitude 52° 30' 0" E (52.5°)  
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): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen, Columbia University, USA. Year of proposal: 1965.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Research vessels of the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE). History: Named from the nearby country of Somali.    
Additional information (en): Formerly, Somali Plain. Shown as Somali Plain in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 1; Longitude: 51.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155539    
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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