Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7298
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishSt. Géran RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishSaint Géran RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 18° 46' 56.9" S (-18.78246815°)  
Longitude 59° 13' 30.2" E (59.22505803°)  
Min. Lat 19° 20' 0" S (-19.3333°)  
Min. Long 58° 48' 0" E (58.8°)  
Max. Lat 18° 7' 0" S (-18.1167°)  
Max. Long 59° 22' 0" E (59.3667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the "St Géran", the most famous ship in history of nearby Mauritius which, whilst bringing colonists, was shipwrecked in 1744 on fringing reef of island's east coast. "St Géran", with 110 crew and colonists aboard and cargo of iron sug    
Additional information (en): Minimum depth (m): 820.    
Relations 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone (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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