Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6895
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishGifford GuyotIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishDart BankUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishGifford BankUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishGifford TablemountUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishNorth Tasman Seamount 5US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Guyot 
Latitude 26° 40' 0" S (-26.666667°)  
Longitude 159° 25' 0" E (159.416667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -26.66666667; Long: 159.4166667    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Henry W. Menard, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1955.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Horizon". Year of discovery: 1952. History: Named by H.W. Menard for his wife Gifford.    
Additional information (en): Discovered during the Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953). Shown as Gifford Tablemount in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -26.75; Longitude: 159.416667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153522    
Relation 
Part of  Coral Sea (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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