Naming Undersea Features of the Sea of Japan:
History and Modern Problems

I. B. Tsoy, V. N. Karnaukh, and E. P. Lelikov

Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute (POI FEB RAS), Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

e-mail: tsoy@poi.dvo.ru

Received December 5, 2011

Abstract—This communication is dedicated to the investigation history and naming of the undersea morpho-
structures of the Sea of Japan for the last 50 years. Many of them were first described and studied during long-
term geological–geophysical investigations in this basin carried out by Russian scientists. The analysis of 60
names of its undersea feature names revealed that only approximately half of them are cited in the GEBCO Gaz-
etteer some of the undersea morphostructures are known under two or more names, the origin of their names is
unknown, or their names were chosen voluntarily. For maintaining the priority of Russian investigations, the
nomenclature and names of the undersea features should be adjusted in accordance with the national and inter-
national principles and regulations.

DOI: 10.1134/S0001437013060076

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