| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7457 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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| English | Middle America Trench | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Acapulco Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| French | Fosse d’Acapulco | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Guatemala Deep | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Guatemala Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Gvatemal’skaya Vpadina | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Mexican Acapulco Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Mexican Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Mexico Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Trinchera de Mexico | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Tsentral’no-Amerikanskiy Zhelob | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Гватемальская Впадина | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Центрально-Американский Желоб | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Trench |
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| Latitude |
15° 15' 52.5" N (15.26457051°) |
| Longitude |
95° 46' 40.1" W (-95.77781243°) |
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| Min. Lat |
8° 45' 0" N (8.75°) |
| Min. Long |
106° 30' 0" W (-106.5°) |
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| Max. Lat |
21° 15' 0" N (21.25°) |
| Max. Long |
84° 45' 0" W (-84.75°) |
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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): Proposer: John G. Heacock, University of Colorado, USA; and J. Lamar Worzel, Columbia University, USA. Year of proposal: 1955. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. Navy vessels en route Panama - California, 1920-1950. Year of discovery: 0. History: Named from its location in Central America. |
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Additional information (en): This extremely long, exceptionaly deep, seismically-active zone was first mapped in a series of geological-geophysical expeditions aboard SIO R/V "Horizon" (1954) and "Spencer F. Baird" (1953, 1954, 1956), following a 1952 reconnaissance by Fisher aboard |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 15; Longitude: -95 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154454 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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