| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7541 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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Name source |
| English | Ruru Ridge | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Ruru Seamount Chain | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Ridge |
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| Latitude |
17° 45' 31.5" S (-17.75874216°) |
| Longitude |
116° 1' 0.9" W (-116.01690775°) |
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| Min. Lat |
17° 52' 0" S (-17.8667°) |
| Min. Long |
116° 25' 0" W (-116.4167°) |
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| Max. Lat |
17° 39' 0" S (-17.65°) |
| Max. Long |
115° 37' 0" W (-115.6167°) |
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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. Proposer: Daniel Scheirer, Brown University, USA. Year of proposal: 1995. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Melville". Year of discovery: 1992. History: Ruru is a Pascuense term for "shake". There was a teleseismically detected earthquake swarm very near this ridge. |
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Additional information (en): 100% multibeam coverage (Seabeam 2000) and GPS navigation. Shown as Ruru Seamount Chain in the ACUF Gazetteer. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -17.75; Longitude: -116.033333 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 186275 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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