MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5137 |
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Name source |
English | Mackay-Bennett Knoll | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Knoll(s) |
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Latitude |
41° 21' 0" N (41.35°) |
Longitude |
48° 57' 0" W (-48.95°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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Notes |
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Proposer: Alan Ruffman, Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CANOMA). Year of proposal: 1991. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the Canadian cable ship "Mackay-Bennett". On April 18, 1912, three days after R.M.S. "Titanic"'s collision with the iceberg, the "Mackay-Bennett" left Halifax with clergymen and embalmers in search of victims. It was called a funeral s |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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