Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7544
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishCloud RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishCloud Seamount ChainUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 18° 32' 0" S (-18.533333°)  
Longitude 114° 37' 0" W (-114.61666°)  
Min. Lat 18° 44' 0" S (-18.7333°)  
Min. Long 115° 42' 0" W (-115.7°)  
Max. Lat 18° 20' 0" S (-18.3333°)  
Max. Long 113° 32' 0" W (-113.5333°)  
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: Named after Preston Cloud (1912-1990), an American earth scientist.    
Additional information (en): 100% multibeam coverage (Seabeam 2000) and GPS navigation. Shown as Cloud Seamount Chain in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -18.533333; Longitude: -114.616667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 186260    
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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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