Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7314
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishSealark Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 4° 49' 48" S (-4.82999456°)  
Longitude 67° 20' 22.3" E (67.33951509°)  
Min. Lat 7° 0' 0" S (-7°)  
Min. Long 65° 0' 0" E (65°)  
Max. Lat 2° 30' 0" S (-2.5°)  
Max. Long 69° 30' 0" E (69.5°)  
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: 1981.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: British survey vessel HMS "Sealark". Year of discovery: 1905. History: Named from the British vessel HMS "Sealark" (Captain Boyle Somerville) that carried out Percy Sladen Trust investigations of northwest Indian ocean coral atolls and banks,     
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -4; Longitude: 68.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155394    
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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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