Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5067
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishNouadhibou CanyonIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishNouâdhibou CanyonUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Canyon(s) 
Latitude 21° 1' 3.6" N (21.01766935°)  
Longitude 18° 12' 57.2" W (-18.21588873°)  
Min. Lat 20° 49' 0" N (20.8167°)  
Min. Long 18° 48' 0" W (-18.8°)  
Max. Lat 21° 13' 0" N (21.2167°)  
Max. Long 17° 38' 0" W (-17.6333°)  
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-13. Proposer: Olivier Parvillers, French Hydrographic Office (SHOM). Year of proposal: 1999.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby city of Nouadhibou and the cape "Ras Nouadhibou", Mauritania.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Nouâdhibou Canyon in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 21.216667; Longitude: -18.8    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9032619    
Relations 
Part of  North Atlantic Ocean (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Overlapping claim Western Sahara: Western Sahara / Morocco (Overlapping claim)  [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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