Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7629
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishAnton Bruun RiseIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishAnton Bruun RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Rise 
Latitude 8° 49' 30.2" S (-8.82505782°)  
Longitude 51° 32' 30" E (51.54168052°)  
Min. Lat 8° 51' 0" S (-8.85°)  
Min. Long 51° 20' 0" E (51.3333°)  
Max. Lat 8° 48' 0" S (-8.8°)  
Max. Long 51° 45' 0" E (51.75°)  
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): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1980.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Anton Bruun". Year of discovery: 1964. History: Named after Dr. Anton Bruun, the eminent Danish marine scientist who was the first Chairman of the IOC (elected 27 October 1961, died 13 December 1961).    
Additional information (en): Shown as Anton Bruun Ridge in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -8.8; Longitude: 51.75    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152377    
Relations 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [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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