Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/4576
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishBahama RidgeIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishBlake Outer RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishBlake RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishBlake-Bahama Outer RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishBlake-Bahama RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishCape Fear RidgeUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
EnglishCharleston RiseUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Ridge 
Latitude 28° 23' 29.1" N (28.3914154°)  
Longitude 74° 2' 47.1" W (-74.04642052°)  
Min. Lat 26° 30' 0" N (26.5°)  
Min. Long 75° 25' 0.1" W (-75.4167°)  
Max. Lat 30° 0' 0" N (30°)  
Max. Long 73° 58' 41.9" W (-73.9783°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Updated coordinates (GEBCO May 2014) - Previous values (GEBCO October 2002): [Max. Long: -74.66667°]    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-6. Proposer: Roger C. Searle, Durham University, UK. Year of proposal: 1981.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Brackett Hersey et al., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), USA. Year of discovery: 1959. History: Named from the nearby Bahama Islands.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Blake-Bahama Ridge in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 29; Longitude: -73.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -152628    
Relations 
Part of  North Atlantic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Bahamian 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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