Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7309
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishChain RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 5° 25' 11.1" N (5.41975388°)  
Longitude 53° 51' 24.3" E (53.85674332°)  
Min. Lat 3° 19' 59.9" N (3.3333°)  
Min. Long 52° 0' 0" E (52°)  
Max. Lat 7° 40' 0.1" N (7.6667°)  
Max. Long 55° 30' 0" E (55.5°)  
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: Elisabeth T. Bunce, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), USA. Year of proposal: 1964.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Chain". Year of discovery: 1960. History: Named from the U.S. research vessel "Chain" of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), that explored and delineated this Somali Basin discrete ridge during the 1963 Inter    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 6; Longitude: 54    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152907    
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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