Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7875
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishSt. Peter Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishSaint Peter Fracture ZoneUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 2° 40' 0" N (2.66667°)  
Longitude 31° 30' 0" W (-31.5°)  
Min. Lat 2° 40' 0" N (2.6667°)  
Min. Long 33° 0' 0" W (-33°)  
Max. Lat 2° 40' 0" N (2.6667°)  
Max. Long 30° 0' 0" W (-30°)  
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: SCGN-8. Proposer: Galina V. Agapova, Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN RAS). Year of proposal: 1989.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Russian research vessel "Akademik Nikolay Strakhov". Year of discovery: 1988. History: Named from the Spanish ship "St. Peter" that investigated the area near "St. Paul Islands", together with ship "St. Paul", in the XVIth century.    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 2.66759; Long: -31.5 (update 2023-07-24)    
Relations 
Part of  North Atlantic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2023-07-24 16:14:57 by Lonneville Britt
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