Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7170
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishHeemskerck Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishHeemskirk Fracture ZoneUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 49° 40' 4.1" S (-49.66780987°)  
Longitude 116° 2' 14.3" E (116.03731918°)  
Min. Lat 50° 2' 48" S (-50.0467°)  
Min. Long 115° 31' 18" E (115.5217°)  
Max. Lat 49° 17' 12" S (-49.2867°)  
Max. Long 116° 32' 42" E (116.545°)  
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-13. Proposer: James R. Cochran, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (L-DEO), USA. Year of proposal: 1999.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the "Heemskerck", one of the vessels of Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-1659), the famous Dutch explorer who discovered Tasmania and New Zealand in 1642.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -49.666667; Longitude: 116    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9096003    
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Part of  South Atlantic 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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