MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7290 |
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Names |
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Name source |
English | La Réunion Trough | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
English | Réunion Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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PlaceType |
Trough |
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Latitude |
23° 36' 49.4" S (-23.613729°) |
Longitude |
52° 46' 5.7" E (52.768237°) |
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Min. Lat |
24° 45' 0" S (-24.75°) |
Min. Long |
52° 0' 0" E (52°) |
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Max. Lat |
22° 15' 0" S (-22.25°) |
Max. Long |
54° 0' 0" E (54°) |
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Source |
IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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Notes |
(en): Updated coordinates (GEBCO May 2014) -
Previous values (GEBCO October 2002):
[Max. Long: 52.5°] |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-14. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1981. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: British submarine HMS "Acheron" and various vessels en route Cape Town - Mauritius. Year of discovery: 1955. History: Named from the nearby "La Réunion" island. This so-called trough was mapped with traverses of vessels of the IIOE 1960-1965, |
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Additional information (en): Formerly, La Réunion Trench. Shown as Réunion Trench in the ACUF Gazetteer. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -23.25; Longitude: 52.116667 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155146 |
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Edit history |
Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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