MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7315 |
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Names |
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Name |
Name source |
English | Maurice Hill Ridge | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
English | Hill Ridge | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
English | M. N. Hill Ridge | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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PlaceType |
Ridge |
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Latitude |
3° 0' 0.1" S (-3.00003315°) |
Longitude |
53° 16' 29.2" E (53.27476776°) |
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Min. Lat |
4° 20' 0" S (-4.3333°) |
Min. Long |
53° 5' 0" E (53.0833°) |
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Max. Lat |
1° 40' 0" S (-1.6667°) |
Max. Long |
53° 28' 0" E (53.4667°) |
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Source |
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): Associated meeting: SCUFN-13. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1972. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Argo". Year of discovery: 1962. History: Named after the British marine geophysicist Maurice N. Hill (1919-1966), at UK's Cambridge University, who planned/led early 1960s cruises in East Africa-Seychelles region. |
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Additional information (en): This feature was discovered during the Lusiad Expedition, 1962-1963. Shown as M. N. Hill Ridge in the ACUF Gazetteer. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -3.5; Longitude: 53.166667 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154495 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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