Overview of Hungarian research in the standardization of undersea feature names

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Overview of Hungarian research in the
standardization of undersea feature names

• Mátyás MÁRTON Gábor GERCSÁK
• Eötvös Loránd University
• Budapest, Hungary
• 23 May 2008

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Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics
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Major points of the paper

• Beginnings in Hungary
• Research team at the university
• Research philosophy
• Research topics
• Papers and publications
• Cooperation with publishers
• Plans and visions

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Landlocked Hungary
Danube
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Budapest
L. Balaton
Danube
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Beginnings in Hungary

• Participation in the UN conferences on
  geographical names (1970s)
• Opening international opportunities
• Initiative to standardize the undersea feature
  names in Hungarian (1979)
• Hungarian delegate in the Commission on Marine
  Cartography of the ICA (1989)

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Research team on geographical names

• Coordinator Assoc. Prof. M. MÁRTON, Habil.
• Team cartographer, geographer, geophysicist,
  linguist
• Three members in the Hungarian Commission on
  Geographical Names
• Teaching committments
• Undergraduate research programmes

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Research philosophy

• Hungary landlocked since 1920
• Responsibility of cartographers in making
  schoolbooks, atlases or scientific papers
• Inter-disciplinary and international approach
• Respect of the linguistic, geographic and
  cartographic traditions of Hungary
• Contracts with publishers
• International relations
• Beautiful Hungarian Map competition

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Research topic I generic terms
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Research topic II specific terms
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Research topic III Projections for ocean maps
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Research topic IV Representation of the
continental relief
Elevation steps are the same both on the
continent and in the sea
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Research topic V Representation of the undersea
relief
Elevation steps are the same both on the
continent and in the sea
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Research topic VI History of mapping
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Research topic VII Hungarian names in English

• Alföld
• Great Alfold
• Great Hungarian Plain
• Great Plain
• Hungarian Great Plain
• Hungarian Plain
• Plains of Hungary
• The Great Plains

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Major papers and publications

• Dutkó, A. The gazetteer and electronic atlas of
  undersea features
• Gercsák, G. Using Hungarian geographical names
  in English language publications
• Hargitai, H. Planetary Maps Visualization and
  nomenclature
• Márton, M. Representation of undersea features
  in small scale maps
• Márton, M. Gercsák, G. Marsigli's map of the
  Gulf of Lion

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Cooperation with publishers I.
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Cooperation outcomes Ichanges in Hungarian names

• Due to the false interpretation of the origin
• Atlantis (Atlantisz)-fenékhegy(Seamount named
  after a ship and not the sunken continent)
• Northwind- (Északi szél) hátság(Ridge named
  after a ship and not the northern wind)
• Natal (Natali)-fenékhegy(Seamount named after a
  ship and not the South African province)

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Cooperation outcomes IIchanges in Hungarian
names

• Due to the false interpretation of the name
• Podvodnyik (Podvodnyikov)-medence(The -ov ending
  expresses genetive and is not part of the name of
  the basin)
• Newfoundlandi (Új-Fundlandi)-Nagy-padok - Grand
  Banks of Newfoundland (Wrong splitting of the
  name New Foundland)

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Cooperation outcomes IIIchanges in Hungarian
names

• Due to inconsistent usage
• Nansen (Gakkel)-hátság(The Russian name was only
  locally used for the ridge)
• Északi- (Norra) Midsjö-pad bankDéli- (Södra)
  Midsjö-padNagy- (Great) Sole-padKis- (Little)
  Sole-pad(Adjectives referring to location and
  size are translated)

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Cooperation with publishers II.
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Cooperation with publishers III.
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Cooperation with publishers IV.
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Plans and visions - I

• Revision of the chapter on the seas in the
  Hungarian Great Atlas of the World

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Plans and visions - II

• English-Hungarian version of B-6(in manuscript,
  approved by the Hungarian Commission on
  Geographical Names)
• Multilingual version of B-6(English-Russian,
  -French, -Spanish and -Hungarian versions on the
  web page of the Department of Cartography and
  Geoinformatics under construction)
• http//mercator.elte.hu/deszter/tenger

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Moat in the multilingual B-6
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Explanatory figure to moat
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Plans and visions - III

• Collection of the names of seas and undersea
  features from maps and gazetteers for a
  multilingual gazetteer

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Collection and coding of the names for a
multilingual gazetteer Gazetteer of the Arctic
Ocean
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Map codes and geogaphical names on the shelf in
various languages with reference to sources
I.1. Barents-self Hungarian
Barents Shelf English 3/403 6/76
Barentsschelf German 1/6 2/146,400 4/10
Barentsuv šelf Czech 1/D.8.4.  
I.1.-1. Északi-foki-selfmedence Hungarian
Nordkapbecken German 5/161 I.1.-1.1.
Fugløyi-pad Hungarian Fugløy-pad
Hungarian 1/56 Fuglöybanken
English 2/5.01 (from Norwegian)
lavice Fugløy Czech 3/46
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Plans and visions - IV

• Preparation of the Hungarian version of Limits of
  Oceans and Seas (SP23)

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MSc degree thesis of a student to translate
SP-23 into Hungarian, edit it in Mapinfo and
make it available on the web page of the
Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics
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Plans and visions - V.

• Working out the computer technology for the 3D
  production of globes
• Virtual Museum of Globes (the detachable
  geophysical-structural globe of the Earth)
• Virtual Globes Museum http//terkeptar.elte.hu/vg
  m

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