Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7300
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishWilshaw RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishEdward Wilshaw RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 18° 45' 30.4" S (-18.75845539°)  
Longitude 55° 31' 23.5" E (55.52320746°)  
Min. Lat 21° 0' 0" S (-21°)  
Min. Long 53° 45' 0" E (53.75°)  
Max. Lat 16° 30' 0" S (-16.5°)  
Max. Long 57° 15' 0" E (57.25°)  
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. Year of proposal: 1981.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: British cable ship "Edward Wilshaw". Year of discovery: 1954. History: Named from the British cable ship, CS "Edward Wilshaw" that made earliest shoal soundings of this very linear feature in 1954; confirmed by British cable ship CS "Stanley A    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -17.5; Longitude: 56.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -156123    
Relations 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  French Exclusive Economic Zone (RĂ©union) (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Overlapping claim Ile Tromelin: France / Madagascar / Republic of Mauritius (Overlapping claim)  [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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