Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7339
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishEast Indiaman RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 26° 4' 39" S (-26.07750262°)  
Longitude 99° 41' 46.5" E (99.69625717°)  
Min. Lat 30° 0' 0" S (-30°)  
Min. Long 98° 10' 0.1" E (98.1667°)  
Max. Lat 22° 19' 59.9" S (-22.3333°)  
Max. Long 101° 39' 27.7" E (101.6577°)  
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: 1981.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Argo". Year of discovery: 1960. History: Named from the special purpose armed merchant V.O.C (Dutch East India Company) sailing ships that were used in the west Europe - East Asian trade in the 17th-18th century for 200 y    
Additional information (en): This NE-SW-trending feature contains two very distinct extensive elevations, Gulden Draak and Batavia, and 4-5 smaller linear elevations. It was explored by ships of the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE), 1959-1965, in particular the U.S. Resea    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -27; Longitude: 99.25    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153247    
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Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [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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