GEBCO Guidelines

The International Hydrographic Organization/Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission publication B-7, "Guidelines for the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans", details the organisational structure of GEBCO and provides information on the management of bathymetric data.

Please note: This publication is currently under revision.

Guidelines and nomenclature for undersea feature names

Guidelines and nomenclature are contained in IHO-IOC Publication B-6 "Standardisation of Undersea Feature Names".

  • English/French version Adobe pdf version of the IHO-IOC publication B-6 (English/French) (227 KB)
  • English/Spanish version Adobe pdf version of the IHO-IOC publication B6 (English/Spanish) (322 KB)
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