Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5264
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishDesecheo ValleyIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishDesecheo BasinUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Valley 
Latitude 17° 48' 30.3" N (17.80840886°)  
Longitude 67° 32' 59" W (-67.54972912°)  
Min. Lat 17° 31' 0" N (17.5167°)  
Min. Long 67° 43' 0" W (-67.7167°)  
Max. Lat 18° 6' 0" N (18.1°)  
Max. Long 67° 23' 0" W (-67.3833°)  
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: SCGN-9. Proposer: Troy L. Holcombe, National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), USA. Year of proposal: 1990.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby Descheo Island, Puerto Rico.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Desecheo Basin in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 17.666667; Longitude: -67.416667    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153160    
Relations 
Part of  Caribbean Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  United States Exclusive Economic Zone (Puerto Rico) (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  United States Exclusive Economic Zone (United States Virgin Islands) (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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