MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6784 |
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Name source |
English | Baissac Bank | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Bank |
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Latitude |
17° 15' 0" S (-17.25°) |
Longitude |
58° 41' 30" E (58.691667°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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Notes |
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -17.25; Long: 58.69166667 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-9. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1991. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: British vessel HMS "Owen". Year of discovery: 1961. History: Named after Jean de Boucheville Baissac (1904-1995). For many years, he was the Crown's Fishery Officer in Mauritius. He made many fishery-oriented investigations in the Mascarene Pl |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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