Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7319
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishGaskell RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 3° 30' 0.1" S (-3.50002867°)  
Longitude 59° 31' 0.7" E (59.51686092°)  
Min. Lat 4° 30' 0" S (-4.5°)  
Min. Long 59° 20' 0" E (59.3333°)  
Max. Lat 2° 30' 0" S (-2.5°)  
Max. Long 59° 42' 0" E (59.7°)  
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-8. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1989.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Danish research vessel "Galathea". Year of discovery: 1951. History: Named after Dr. Thomas Gaskell, geophysicist. He was senior scientist aboard the British vessel HMS "Challenger" on a 1950-1952 round-the-world research cruise.    
Relation 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Map
Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
[Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]