Composite Antarctic Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7187
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishWeddell Abyssal PlainIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishWeddell PlainUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Abyssal Plain 
Latitude 67° 6' 55.9" S (-67.11553783°)  
Longitude 20° 24' 59.7" W (-20.41659618°)  
Min. Lat 71° 15' 0" S (-71.25°)  
Min. Long 48° 0' 0" W (-48°)  
Max. Lat 60° 0' 0" S (-60°)  
Max. Long 1° 40' 0" E (1.6667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Updated coordinates (GEBCO May 2014) - Previous values (GEBCO October 2002): [Min. Lat: 65°30'0"S] ; [Min. Long: 40°0'0"W] ; [Max. Lat: 64°0'0"S] ; [Max. Long: 10°0'0"W]    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named after the British sailor, navigator and seal hunter James Weddell (1787-1834), who discovered the Weddell Sea during his Antarctic voyage 1822-1824.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Weddell Plain in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -65; Longitude: -20    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -156049    
Relation 
Part of  Southern Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Map
Species
occurring
in this area (16)
Anatoma weddelliana (Zelaya & D. L. Geiger, 2007)
Arbor floccularis Schröder, Medioli & Scott, 1989
Arbor hispida Schröder, Medioli & Scott, 1989
Arbor multiplex Schröder, Medioli & Scott, 1989
Baculella globofera Tendal & Hessler, 1977
Brookula exquisita A. H. Clarke, 1961 accepted as Benthobrookula exquisita (A. H. Clarke, 1961)
Conqueria laevis Gooday & Pawlowski, 2004
Edgertonia argillispherula Tendal & Hessler, 1977
Edgertonia floccula Shires, Gooday & Jones, 1994
Ipoa fragila Tendal & Hessler, 1977
Komokia multiramosa Tendal & Hessler, 1977
Leptammina flavofusca Cedhagen, Gooday & Pawlowski, 2009
Leptammina grisea Cedhagen, Gooday & Pawlowski, 2009
Normanina conferta (Norman, 1878)
Reticulum Schröder, Medioli & Scott, 1989
Septuma ocotillo Tendal & Hessler, 1977
Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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