Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/33507
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishKokugan Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 16° 31' 33.1" N (16.52586232°)  
Longitude 139° 59' 41.7" E (139.9949078°)  
Min. Lat 16° 12' 0" N (16.2°)  
Min. Long 139° 56' 24" E (139.94°)  
Max. Lat 16° 51' 6.1" N (16.8517°)  
Max. Long 140° 3' 0" E (140.05°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Coordinates calculated from feature    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 16.52585; Long: 139.995; minLat: 16.2; minLong: 139.94; maxLat: 16.8517; maxLong: 140.05    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-25. Proposer: Yasuhiko Ohara, Japan Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department (JHOD). Year of proposal: 2012.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessels "Takuyo" and "Shoyo". Year of discovery: 1993. History: Kokugan is the Japanese for "Brant goose". A bird is relevant to the name of the nearby Oki-no-Tori Shima Island ("tori" means "bird" in Japanese).    
Additional information (en): Reference: Ohara et al., 2011, Tectonics of unusual crustal accretion in the Parece Vela Basin, in Y. Ogawa et al. (eds), Accretionary prisms and convergent margin tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin, Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 8,     
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Part of  Philippine Sea (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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