Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7535
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishRangi RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishRangi Seamount ChainUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 17° 10' 30.6" S (-17.1751654°)  
Longitude 114° 5' 30.2" W (-114.09172421°)  
Min. Lat 17° 13' 0" S (-17.2167°)  
Min. Long 114° 21' 0" W (-114.35°)  
Max. Lat 17° 8' 0" S (-17.1333°)  
Max. Long 113° 50' 0" W (-113.8333°)  
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: SCUFN-12. Proposer: Daniel Scheirer, Brown University, USA. Year of proposal: 1995.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Melville". Year of discovery: 1992. History: Rangi is the Pascuense term for "sky". Several volcanoes in this ridge have star-like radial patterns/structures.    
Additional information (en): 100% multibeam coverage (Seabeam 2000) and GPS navigation. Shown as Rangi Seamount Chain in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -17.166667; Longitude: -114.083333    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 186271    
Relation 
Part of  South Pacific 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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