| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7302 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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Name source |
| English | Vema Trench | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Heezen Gap | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Trench |
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| Latitude |
10° 6' 3.8" S (-10.10105679°) |
| Longitude |
65° 48' 18.5" E (65.80513589°) |
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| Min. Lat |
12° 5' 0" S (-12.0833°) |
| Min. Long |
63° 0' 0" E (63°) |
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| Max. Lat |
8° 0' 0" S (-8°) |
| Max. Long |
68° 30' 0" E (68.5°) |
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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 |
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -9; Long: 67.33333333; minLat: -12.08333333; minLong: 63; maxLat: -8; maxLong: 68.5 |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-13. Proposer: Bruce Heezen and John E. Nafe, Columbia University, USA. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Vema". Year of discovery: 1958. History: Named from the U.S. research vessel "Vema", research ship of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, NY, from 1951 to 1980s, and that discovered this feature in |
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Additional information (en): This name, early given quite loosely, actually designates a fracture zone on the Central Indian Ridge. However, there already is a Vema Fracture Zone in the North Atlantic, so this traditional name has been retained. ACUF has a Vema Fracture Zone at 10°00 |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -9; Longitude: 67.333333 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155951 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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