Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7836
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishSpitsbergen Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishNansen Fracture ZoneUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishSpitzbergen Fracture ZoneUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 79° 53' 31.9" N (79.89218304°)  
Longitude 0° 59' 55.7" E (0.9988152°)  
Min. Lat 79° 30' 0" N (79.5°)  
Min. Long 2° 30' 0" W (-2.5°)  
Max. Lat 80° 15' 0" N (80.25°)  
Max. Long 4° 15' 0" E (4.25°)  
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-16. Proposer: Martin Klenke, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. Year of proposal: 2003.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. icebreakers and submarines. Year of discovery: 1960. History: Named from the nearby Spitsbergen archipelago, Norway.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 80; Longitude: 0    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155611    
Relations 
Part of  Greenland Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Danish Exclusive Economic Zone (Greenland) (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone (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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