MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7300 |
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Proposed standard |
Names |
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Name |
Name source |
English | Wilshaw Ridge | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
English | Edward Wilshaw Ridge | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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PlaceType |
Ridge |
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Latitude |
18° 45' 30.4" S (-18.75845539°) |
Longitude |
55° 31' 23.5" E (55.52320746°) |
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Min. Lat |
21° 0' 0" S (-21°) |
Min. Long |
53° 45' 0" E (53.75°) |
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Max. Lat |
16° 30' 0" S (-16.5°) |
Max. Long |
57° 15' 0" E (57.25°) |
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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 |
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): 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 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 |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -17.5; Longitude: 56.5 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -156123 |
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Edit history |
Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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