Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7573
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishPitman Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 65° 21' 22.3" S (-65.35619°)  
Longitude 167° 55' 42.3" W (-167.92843°)  
Min. Lat 69° 38' 35.5" S (-69.6432°)  
Min. Long 179° 59' 56.4" W (-179.999°)  
Max. Lat 61° 26' 3" S (-61.4342°)  
Max. Long 156° 4' 54.1" W (-156.0817°)  
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): Associated meeting: SCUFN-10. Proposer: Steven C. Cande, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA; William F. Haxby, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (L-DGO), USA; and C. Raymond, USA. Year of proposal: 1992.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after the American geophysicist Walter C. Pitman III (1931-), a pioneer in the theory of seafloor spreading.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -64.5; Longitude: -170    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 11257    
Previous coordinates (en): Lat: -64.99546 ; Long: -169.87971 ; minLat: -69.6432 ; minLong: -180 ; maxLat: -60.6245 ; maxLong: 179.9999 (update 2020-04-22)    
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Edit history Last edited on 2020-05-08 00:45:32 by Lonneville Britt
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