Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7310
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishCoco-de-Mer RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishCoco-de-Mer SeamountsUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 0° 30' 0.3" N (0.50009207°)  
Longitude 55° 54' 59.3" E (55.91647523°)  
Min. Lat 0° 40' 0" S (-0.6667°)  
Min. Long 54° 50' 0" E (54.8333°)  
Max. Lat 1° 40' 0" N (1.6667°)  
Max. Long 57° 0' 0" E (57°)  
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): Associated meeting: SCGN-9. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1981.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Argo". Year of discovery: 1962. History: Named from the unique Seychelles "Coco-de-Mer", a double-lobed coconut.    
Additional information (en): This feature was mapped by SIO's research vessel "Argo" (1962-63), during the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE, 1960-65), then by reseach vessel "Melville" later. Shown as Coco-de-Mer Seamount in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 0.5; Longitude: 56    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152973    
Relations 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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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