Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7858
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishWest Florida EscarpmentIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishFlorida EscarpmentUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Escarpment 
Latitude 26° 54' 48.3" N (26.91340803°)  
Longitude 85° 2' 44.8" W (-85.04576874°)  
Min. Lat 24° 33' 0" N (24.55°)  
Min. Long 87° 20' 40.9" W (-87.3447°)  
Max. Lat 28° 22' 13.8" N (28.3705°)  
Max. Long 84° 0' 0" W (-84°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-16. Proposer: José Luis Frias Salazar, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico; and Lisa Taylor, National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), USA. Year of proposal: 2003.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from its geographical position, west of Florida, USA.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Florida Escarpment in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 27; Longitude: -85.25    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153419    
Relations 
Part of  Gulf of Mexico (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  United States Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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