Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6802
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishWanganella BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishWanganella Oceanic BankUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishWanganella TablemountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 32° 37' 58.8" S (-32.63299°)  
Longitude 167° 29' 10.7" E (167.4863°)  
Min. Lat 32° 49' 40.9" S (-32.828°)  
Min. Long 167° 19' 14.4" E (167.3207°)  
Max. Lat 32° 26' 33.4" S (-32.4426°)  
Max. Long 167° 39' 11.8" E (167.6533°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Corrected latitude/longitude (GEBCO October 2002 error: 32°30'0"S/167°25'0"E) Updated with GEBCO May 2014.    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-25. Proposer: New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB). Year of proposal: 2012.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from New Zealand Passenger Vessel MV "Wanganella", launched in 1929, that first located this feature in 1949.    
Additional information (en): This feature is located on the crest of the Norfolk Ridge, 580 km NW of North Cape and 360 km S of Norfolk Island. It trends N-S but is offset to the W compared with the main Norfolk Ridge to the N. The name first appeared on Oceanic Bathymetry Series (OB    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -32.45; Longitude: 167.433333    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -156033    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -33.75 ; Long: 167.25 (update 2020-04-22)    
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Part of  South Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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