| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7386 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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Name source |
| English | Yap Trench | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| French | Fosse de Yap | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | West Caroline Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Yap Trough | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Trench |
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| Latitude |
9° 19' 29" N (9.32470991°) |
| Longitude |
138° 19' 22.4" E (138.32287566°) |
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| Min. Lat |
7° 19' 59.9" N (7.3333°) |
| Min. Long |
137° 0' 0" E (137°) |
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| Max. Lat |
11° 40' 0.1" N (11.6667°) |
| Max. Long |
139° 0' 0" E (139°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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| Notes |
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-12. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby Yap Island, one of the Caroline Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia. |
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Additional information (en): As for several other trenches in the Western Pacific, the existence of this feature was well known by the 1930s-1940s. Jamstec's Dr. Fujiwara submitted more precise depth figure in 1997. Significantly deeper depth of 8946 m was reported by the Japanese Re |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 8.5; Longitude: 138 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -156166 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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