Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7301
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishFarquhar RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishAldabra RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 10° 10' 4.7" S (-10.1679799°)  
Longitude 50° 55' 10.3" E (50.91951747°)  
Min. Lat 11° 10' 0" S (-11.1667°)  
Min. Long 50° 0' 0" E (50°)  
Max. Lat 9° 10' 0" S (-9.1667°)  
Max. Long 51° 50' 0" E (51.8333°)  
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: 1978.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: British survey vessel HMS "Sealark". Year of discovery: 1905. History: Named from the nearby Farquhar Group (of islands) and Farquhar Atoll, Seychelles.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -10; Longitude: 51    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153379    
Relations 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Seychellois 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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