Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/6172
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishOrtelius Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 25° 0' 0" N (25°)  
Longitude 162° 45' 0" E (162.75°)  
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-6. Proposer: Jacqueline Mammerickx, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1985.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after the Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) who, with the improvement in printing, invented atlases that could be reproduced in large quantities and distributed widely.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 27.5; Longitude: 165    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154829    
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Part of  North Pacific 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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