Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7465
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishLazaro Cardenas CanyonIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishLázaro Cárdenas CanyonUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Canyon(s) 
Latitude 17° 7' 40" N (17.127776°)  
Longitude 101° 54' 40.7" W (-101.9113°)  
Min. Lat 17° 1' 0" N (17.0167°)  
Min. Long 101° 57' 0" W (-101.95°)  
Max. Lat 17° 15' 0" N (17.25°)  
Max. Long 101° 51' 0" W (-101.85°)  
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-12. Proposer: Robert L. Fisher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA; and E. Aguayo, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM, México. Year of proposal: 1996.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Spencer F. Baird". Year of discovery: 1956. History: Named after Lazaro Cardenas, former President of Mexico (in the 1940s), who sponsored development in this coastal region.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Lázaro Cárdenas Canyon in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 17.133333; Longitude: -101.95    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): 9032509    
Relations 
Part of  North Pacific Ocean (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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