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http://marineregions.org/mrgid/48844 |
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| English | Konotori Fracture Zone | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Fracture Zone |
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| Latitude |
18° 36' 51.7" N (18.614354°) |
| Longitude |
139° 18' 10.4" E (139.302898°) |
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17° 32' 16.3" N (17.5379°) |
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138° 42' 30.9" E (138.7086°) |
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19° 43' 15.6" N (19.721°) |
| Max. Long |
139° 50' 19.8" E (139.8388°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-28. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). Year of proposal: 2015. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese survey vessels "Takuyo" and "Shoyo". Year of discovery: 1993. History: Konotori is the Japanese for a stork. A bird is relevant to the name of the nearby Oki-no-Tori Shima Island, which includes a "bird" (= "tori") within its name. |
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Additional information (en): The fracture zones within the Parece Vela Fracture Zone Province have names after birds. 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 te |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 14:57:37 by Oset Garcia Paula
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