Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7551
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishSalas y Gómez RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
RussianKhrebet Sala-i-GomesUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishSala y Gómez RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishSouth-Eastern Pacific PlateauUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
RussianХребет Сала-и-ГомесUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 25° 45' 27.8" S (-25.75771157°)  
Longitude 94° 51' 0.7" W (-94.85019949°)  
Min. Lat 26° 0' 0" S (-26°)  
Min. Long 102° 0' 0" W (-102°)  
Max. Lat 25° 10' 0" S (-25.1667°)  
Max. Long 87° 45' 0" W (-87.75°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes General information (en): Previous Max. Long value was incorrect: 87.75°E    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Robert L. Fisher and Dale C. Krause, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1958.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessels "Horizon" and "Spencer F. Baird". Year of discovery: 1958. History: Named after a Spanish pilot, José Salas Valdés, who discovered the islet on 23 August 1793. Subsequently, 18/19 October 1805, this island was discovered     
Additional information (en): Linear chain of connected seamounts with one emergent peak, the islet Sala y Gómez [Chile: uninhabited].    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -25; Longitude: -98    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155275    
Relations 
Part of  South Pacific Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone (Easter Island) (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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