Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6868
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishFreeden BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 76° 20' 0" S (-76.333333°)  
Longitude 28° 50' 0" W (-28.833333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -76.33333333; Long: -28.83333333    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. Proposer: Heinrich Hinze, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 1997.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after Wilhelm von Freeden (1822-1894), German oceanographer, founder of the "Norddeutsche Seewarte" (predecessor of the German Hydrographic Office). He organized the first two German Polar expeditions, and he has worked on processing and an    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 320397    
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Part of  Southern 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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