Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7006
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishPolarstern CanyonIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Canyon(s) 
Latitude 72° 55' 2.1" S (-72.91724°)  
Longitude 25° 15' 55.8" W (-25.26551°)  
Min. Lat 74° 22' 54.1" S (-74.3817°)  
Min. Long 27° 19' 0.1" W (-27.3167°)  
Max. Lat 71° 41' 6" S (-71.685°)  
Max. Long 23° 5' 17.9" W (-23.0883°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -74.5; Long: -27; minLat: -74.3817; minLong: 23.0883; maxLat: -71.658; maxLong: 27.3167    
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 from the German research vessel "Polarstern", which carried out research work in the Weddell Sea from her first commissioning in 1982.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Polarstern Plateau in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -71.5; Longitude: -21    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 320404    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -72.92927 ; Long: 25.63479 ; minLat: -74.3817 ; minLong: 23.0883 ; maxLat: -71.685 ; maxLong: 27.3167 (update 2020-04-22)    
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Edit history Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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