| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7568 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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| English | Tonga Trench | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Aldrich Deep | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Kermadec-Tonga Troughs | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Tonga Deep | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Tonga-Kermadec Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Zhelob Tonga | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Желоб Тонга | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Trench |
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| Latitude |
20° 22' 57.7" S (-20.38268084°) |
| Longitude |
173° 13' 47.2" W (-173.22977961°) |
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| Min. Lat |
24° 30' 0" S (-24.5°) |
| Min. Long |
175° 10' 0.1" W (-175.1667°) |
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| Max. Lat |
16° 0' 0" S (-16°) |
| Max. Long |
172° 10' 0.1" W (-172.1667°) |
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| Source |
IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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| Notes |
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: British screw sloop HMS "Egeria". Year of discovery: 1880. History: Named from the nearby Tonga Archipelago. |
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Additional information (en): Deep water south and east of the Tonga Islands has been known since the 1880s. This area has been studied by ships of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), commencing with research vessels "Horizon" and "Spencer F. Baird" in 1952. This is the site of |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -20; Longitude: -173 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155816 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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