Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7295
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishEgeria Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 20° 0' 23.1" S (-20.0064058°)  
Longitude 66° 30' 34.1" E (66.50947551°)  
Min. Lat 21° 0' 0" S (-21°)  
Min. Long 65° 0' 0" E (65°)  
Max. Lat 19° 0' 0" S (-19°)  
Max. Long 68° 0' 0" E (68°)  
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): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1974.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Argo". Year of discovery: 1968. History: Named from the British survey vessel HMS "Egeria". En route to Polynesia, she took a deep sounding in this feature in the late 1800s.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -20; Longitude: 66.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9201    
Relations 
Part of  Indian Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [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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