Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6870
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishHeiskanen KnollIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Knoll(s) 
Latitude 67° 42' 4.7" S (-67.70130621°)  
Longitude 8° 40' 52.6" W (-8.68127442°)  
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: 67°36'0"S/8°30'0"W) Updated with GEBCO May 2014.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -67.70131; Long: -8.681274    
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 the eminent Finnish geodesist Veikko Heiskanen.    
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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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