Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7265
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishGauss Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 35° 36' 17.4" S (-35.60482643°)  
Longitude 54° 3' 9.8" E (54.05273595°)  
Min. Lat 40° 0' 0" S (-40°)  
Min. Long 52° 15' 0" E (52.25°)  
Max. Lat 31° 0' 0" S (-31°)  
Max. Long 55° 0' 0" E (55°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -36; Long: 54; minLat: -40; minLong: 52.25; maxLat: -31; maxLong: 55    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-10. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1992.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Various vessels. Year of discovery: 1980. History: Named from the German exploring vessel "Gauss", which visited this part of the Indian Ocean in the early 1900s.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -36; Longitude: 54    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 11236    
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Part of  Indian 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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