Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7290
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishLa Réunion TroughIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishRéunion TrenchUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Trough 
Latitude 23° 36' 49.4" S (-23.613729°)  
Longitude 52° 46' 5.7" E (52.768237°)  
Min. Lat 24° 45' 0" S (-24.75°)  
Min. Long 52° 0' 0" E (52°)  
Max. Lat 22° 15' 0" S (-22.25°)  
Max. Long 54° 0' 0" E (54°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Updated coordinates (GEBCO May 2014) - Previous values (GEBCO October 2002): [Max. Long: 52.5°]    
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.    
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,     
Additional information (en): Formerly, La Réunion Trench. Shown as Réunion Trench in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -23.25; Longitude: 52.116667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155146    
Relations 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  French Exclusive Economic Zone (Réunion) (EEZ)  [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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