Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6906
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishNorth New Hebrides TrenchIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
FrenchFosse de TorresUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishTorres TrenchUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Trench 
Latitude 12° 30' 0" S (-12.5°)  
Longitude 165° 50' 0" E (165.833333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -12.5; Long: 165.8333333    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA; and Harry H. Hess, Princeton University, USA. Year of proposal: 1962.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Spencer F. Baird". Year of discovery: 1962. History: Named from the nearby New Hebrides Islands (now, Vanuatu).    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -13; Longitude: 166    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154728    
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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