Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/25050
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishSigsbee Abyssal PlainIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishSigsbee BasinUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishSigsbee PlainUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Abyssal Plain 
Latitude 24° 2' 35.1" N (24.04308526°)  
Longitude 92° 39' 4.5" W (-92.65125722°)  
Min. Lat 22° 39' 0" N (22.65°)  
Min. Long 94° 51' 0" W (-94.85°)  
Max. Lat 25° 31' 0.1" N (25.5167°)  
Max. Long 89° 40' 59.9" W (-89.6833°)  
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 after Commander Charles D. Sigsbee, U.S. Navy, Captain of U.S. ship "Blake" in the 1870s. See "The History of GEBCO 1903-2003", pp. 10 and 13.    
Additional information (en): Deepest flat sector of Sigsbee Deep.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 23.5; Longitude: -93    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155490    
Relations 
Part of  Gulf of Mexico (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Mexican 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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