| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7287 |
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Proposed standard  |
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Name source |
| English | Melville Fracture Zone | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Fracture Zone |
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| Latitude |
30° 0' 10.4" S (-30.00289961°) |
| Longitude |
60° 41' 36.4" E (60.69344828°) |
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34° 0' 0" S (-34°) |
| Min. Long |
60° 0' 0" E (60°) |
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| Max. Lat |
26° 0' 0" S (-26°) |
| Max. Long |
61° 20' 0" E (61.3333°) |
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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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| Notes |
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1974. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Melville". Year of discovery: 1970. History: Named from U.S. research vessel "Melville", which dredged this huge chasm in 1970-1971, also recognized and mapped by U.S. research vessel "Argo" in 1968. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -30.5; Longitude: 60.666667 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154407 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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