Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/25096
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishVictoria Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishVittoria Fracture ZoneUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 5° 0' 2" N (5.00056591°)  
Longitude 175° 45' 12.3" E (175.7534162°)  
Min. Lat 2° 0' 0" N (2°)  
Min. Long 175° 0' 0" E (175°)  
Max. Lat 8° 0' 0" N (8°)  
Max. Long 176° 30' 0" E (176.5°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Proposer: Dr. Jacqueline Mammerickx, SIO, USA Discoverer: Larson & Chase Origin of Name: Vittoria, one of originally five ships of Magellan's fleet, was the only one to complete the 1519-1522 circumnavigation.     
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 5; Long: 175.75; minLat: 2; minLong: 175; maxLat: 8; maxLong: 176.5    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-6. Proposer: Jacqueline Mammerickx, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1983.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Roger Larson and Thomas Chase, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of discovery: 1972. History: Named from the ship "Victoria", one of originally five ships of Magellan's fleet, the only one to complete the 1519-1522 circumnav    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 4; Longitude: 176    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155970    
Relations 
Part of  North Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Kiribati Exclusive Economic Zone (Gilbert Islands) (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Marshallese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
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