Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/8048
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishBarents Abyssal PlainIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishBarents PlainUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Abyssal Plain 
Latitude 85° 0' 0" N (85°)  
Longitude 40° 0' 0" E (40°)  
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-15. Proposer: Maria V. Klenova, Floating Marine Scientific Institute (Plavmornin), Russia. Year of proposal: 1937.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Russian research vessel "Persey". Year of discovery: 1937. History: Named after the Dutch polar explorer V. Barents (1550-1597), who led three expeditions to search for a seaway from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic region     
Additional information (en): Shown as Barents Plain in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 83; Longitude: 35    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152508    
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Part of  Arctic 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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