Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7562
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishTharp Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishSouth Branch of Eltanin Fracture ZoneUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 54° 52' 30" S (-54.875°)  
Longitude 128° 30' 0" W (-128.5°)  
Min. Lat 57° 45' 0" S (-57.75°)  
Min. Long 142° 0' 0" W (-142°)  
Max. Lat 52° 0' 0" S (-52°)  
Max. Long 115° 0' 0" W (-115°)  
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: Jacqueline Mammerickx, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1970.    
Additional information (en): This is one of four major fracture zones in South Pacific (others are Heezen, Menard, Udintsev) named for significant marine geologists.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -54; Longitude: -135    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155764    
Relation 
Part of  South Pacific 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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